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| Information requests |
| 1 | Improving content on US states |
| Introduction |
| 2 | Introduction to photography in California |
| The arrival of the masses |
| 3 | Early photographers and studios of California |
| 4 | Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) |
| 5 | George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) |
| 6 | Arnold Genthe: Chinatown |
| 7 | Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco |
| Locations |
| 8 | California: San Francisco: Chinatown |
| 9 | California: Cliff House |
| 10 | California: Los Angeles |
| 11 | California: Point Lobos |
| 12 | California: Yosemite Valley |
| 13 | California: Yosemite: Yosemite Valley and the Merced River |
| 14 | California: Yosemite: Glacier Point |
| Prisons |
| 15 | Eadweard Muybridge: State Prison at San Quentin (published October 1873) |
| The Great Outdoors |
| 16 | Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) |
| 17 | Carleton Eugene Watkins: California, Mt. Shasta |
| 18 | Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal. |
| 19 | Charles Leander Weed: California (taken 1864-1865) |
| 20 | Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad |
| 21 | Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma |
| 22 | I.W. Taber: [Logging and transportation of "World's Fair Big Tree, Mammoth Forest, California"] |
| 23 | Charles C. Curtis: Trees of California |
| 24 | Seth Kinman: California hunter (1815-1888) |
| 25 | Rudolph D'Heureuse: The Mojave Road |
| Transportation |
| 26 | Eadweard Muybridge: California Dry Dock, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California |
| Capturing movement |
| 27 | Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments |
| San Francisco Earthquake (1868) |
| 28 | Earthquake: San Francisco (1868) |
| San Francisco advertising album (1880) |
| 29 | I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880) |
| San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906) |
| 30 | USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 |
| 31 | USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers |
| Pictorialism in California |
| 32 | William Dassonville: Trees |
| 33 | Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes |
| Ansel Adams and the American perception of sublime nature |
| 34 | Ansel Adams and Straight landscape photography |
| 35 | Ansel Adams: Yosemite |
| 36 | Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946) |
| 37 | Ansel Adams: Hills Brothers Coffee Can |
| 38 | Ansel Adams |
| Edward Weston |
| 39 | Edward Weston: Point Lobos |
| 40 | Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes |
| 41 | Edward Weston: Trees |
| The Great Depression |
| 42 | Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco |
| Internment in California |
| 43 | Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War |
| Street photography |
| 44 | Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography |
| 45 | Max Yavno: California |
| Architecture |
| 46 | Julius Shulman: Architecture |
| 47 | Richard Misrach: San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge |
| Ed Ruscha and the Artist's book |
| 48 | Ed Ruscha: Self-published books |
| 49 | Ed Ruscha: Royal Road Test (1967) |
| 50 | Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip (1971) |
| 51 | Ed Ruscha: Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles (1967) |
| Interpretations of landscape |
| 52 | Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974) |
| 53 | Robbert Flick: Trajectories |
| Aerial photography of California |
| 54 | William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia |
| 55 | David Maisel: Oblivion |
| Contemporary culture |
| 56 | Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture |
| 57 | Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home |
| 58 | Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers |
| 59 | Norma Quintana: Forage from Fire (2017-2020) |
