THE KNEELAND FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

All locations are on Black Mountain, California, unless otherwise indicated.

   Photographs [in boxes 9 and 10]
      Arco Iris (from Clarissa Kneeland’s manuscript), undated

Numerous covered wagons, undated
A covered wagon, undated
Men working a large machine(?), undated
A man working with three packed mules, undated
Men gathering water from the Fuerte River using pack mules, undated
A woman working, undated
A large group of people taking part in a celebration, undated
Distant view of a group of people taking part in a celebration, undated
A mannequin dressed in ceremonial clothing (as part of a celebration), undated
A large group of people watching as a man dances (as part of a celebration), undated
A group of people admiring a large cactus, undated
A man standing in a field, undated
A woman sitting by the Fuerte River, undated
"A cypress tree on the Fuerte," undated
Looking out onto the Fuerte River
Overlooking a small town, undated
Overlooking an unidentified town. Focus in on a large train station, undated
A Bird on the roof of a building, undated


   Black Mountain buildings

First fire lookout on Black Mountain, ca.193- (KBM 16)
Heliot's adobe store, Prather, ca. 193-? (KBM 7)
Prather, ca. 193-. Carol Page store [see also Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 4)
Unidentified house, undated (KBM 40)
Unidentified house, undated (KBM 61)
Unidentified house. Aerial view, undated (KBM 54)

   Colorado
         Originals
               Boulder
                    Numbered, undated
                        Aerial view of Boulder, undated (35)
                        Aerial view of Boulder, undated (86)
                        Residence of J.M. Davidson, Boulder, undated (43)
                        North Boulder Falls, undated (32)
                        Railroad Camp, South Boulder, undated (16)
                    Unnumbered, 1889 and undated
               Louisville (all numbered), undated
                    Distant view of Louisville, undated (6)
                    Louisville Schoolhouse, undated (8)
                    Bonton Restaurant, Louisville, undated (7)
                    V.H. Darrow building, Louisville, undated (10)
                    Louisville Coal Shaft, undated (9)
                Railroads (all unnumbered), undated
                Miscellaneous
                    Numbered, undated
                        Colorado Freight team, undated (12)
                         "Our camp at the Baranga," undated (172)
                         Overlooking Sunbeam Gulch, undated (62)
                         Aerial view of Valmont, undated (3)

Unnumbered, 1893 and undated
Overlooking a sawmill, undated (C 15)
Overlooking a sawmill, undated (C 16)
Overlooking a sawmill, undated (C 28)
Three men at work in a sawmill, undated (C 14)
Two women posing with a sawmill in the background, undated (C 26A)
Unidentified man, undated (C 1)
Group of people near Gold Hill, undated (C 13)
Group of people. Taken near Sugar Loaf, undated (C 26)
Group of people, including Althea Kneeland, undated (C 41)
Group of people, including Althea Kneeland, undated (C 42)
Group of people, mainly children, undated (C 67)
Large group of people, undated (C 68)
Group of people standing on the Sixth Street Bridge. Taken in Boulder, undated 
(C 69)
Group of young women, undated (C 70)
A man and a boy working in a field, undated (C 65)
A man and a boy working in a field, undated (C 66)
Group of people walking in the mountains, undated (C 17)
Group of people gathered under a rock overhang, undated (C 76)
View of a river, undated (C 34)
View of a river, undated (C 63A)
The Slide Rocks, in sight from Boulder, undated (C 58)
"The Place You Want To See." The Slide Rocks in sight from Boulder, undated (C 59)
Lonetree Rock, Boulder Caņon, undated (C 29)
Mouth of South Boulder Caņon, undated (C 24)
Mouth of Boulder Caņon, undated (C 27)
Eagle Rock, Boulder Caņon, undated (C 31)
A peep into Boulder Caņon, undated (C 33)
North Boulder Caņon, undated (C 60)
Boulder Caņon, undated (C 30)
Pewink Park, North Boulder, undated (C 40)
Large group of people at Pewink Park, North Boulder, undated (C 43)
Gateway, South Boulder, undated (C 21)
Gateway, South Boulder, undated (C 22)
Barbers Ranch, South Boulder, undated (C 25)
South Boulder, undated (C 23)
Boulder, undated (C 37)
Boulder, undated (C 38)
Boulder, undated (C 39)
Overlooking an unidentified town (possibly Boulder), undated (C 47)
Overlooking an unidentified town (possibly Boulder), undated (C 48)
Langford ("Fox Town"), undated (C 44)
The burning coalmine at Langford, undated (C 46)
Small house on the side of a mountain, undated (C 61)
Overlooking a mountain home, undated (C 62)
Small house in the mountains, undated (C 64)
Colorado State University, Boulder, undated (C 36)
Large building in Denver, undated (C 75)
Large building, possibly a church, undated (C 74)
Buildings on the side of a mountain, undated (C 49)
Several buildings on an unidentified street, undated (C 72)
Looking down an unidentified street, undated (C 73)
Man on a horse drawn wagon, undated (C 63B)
Horse drawn buggies with a passenger train in the background, undated (C 71)
Railroad cut South Boulder, undated (C 12)
Railroad grade, South Boulder, undated (C 18)
Railroad grading, South Boulder, undated (C 20)
Railroad tracks running along a river, undated (C 50)
Railroad tracks running along a river. Taken in Boulder, undated (C 53)
Railroad tracks running along a river, undated (C 56)
Railroad tracks at Boulder Caņon, undated (C 54)
Railroad tracks running near an unidentified town, undated (C 57)
"Maxwell's Pitch, Boulder," undated (C 52)
Train coming around a corner, undated (C 55)
Railroad blacksmith shop, South Boulder, undated (C 19)


       Equipment, undated

Ira's machine (KBM 26)
Ira's pump (KBM 52)
Unidentified machinery (KBM 47)

       Kneelands in Colorado

Home in Bummer (?) Gulch (187a)
"Our tent at Boulder," Colorado (187b)
Kneeland tent in Boulder, Colorado (187c)
A house in the clearing (187d)
Kneelands at a ranch (187e)
Kneeland's camp (187f)
Kneeland's log cabin and tent, Colorado (187g)
Clarissa and Flora Kneeland with dolls (187h)
Clarissa and Flora Kneeland with dolls (187i)
Clarissa and Flora Kneeland (187j)
Gold Hill School, 1888 (187k)
Althea, Clarissa, and Flora Kneeland (187l)
"Christmas Eve 1888" (Boulder?) (187m)
Man fishing at south Boulder (187n)
"Pancosts Lake, No.4" (187o)
Kneeland family (187p)
Flora Kneeland (187q)
Kneeland girls (187r)
Kneeland girl and Ira Kneeland (187s)
Kneeland family and friends in kitchen (187t)
Flora and Clarissa Kneeland (f187u)
Clarissa Kneeland (f187v)

       Kneeland Family

Kneeland family on the road to Topolobampo? Probably noon camp. Elgin, Arizona.
1 January 1894. See Mrs. Kneeland's diary (188)
"Home of G.S. Kneeland, May 18, 1894." (189)
The Kneeland family (190) [missing]
The Kneelands (191)
Mary, George, Clarissa and family friend at Sivirijoa (?), ca.191-. (f191a)
George and Mary Kneeland (192)
George Kneeland (193)
George Kneeland (194)
Mary Eliza Kneeland (195)
Mary Eliza Kneeland (196)
Kneeland women in Boulder, ca.1890 (197)
Althea Kneeland (198)
Althea Kneeland (199)
Althea Kneeland (200)
Althea Kneeland (201)
Althea Kneeland (202)
Althea Kneeland and Clarence A. Page (203)
Althea Kneeland and Clarence A. Page (204)
Clarence and Mabel Page and unidentified woman (204A)
Carissa Kneeland (205)
Clarissa Kneeland (206)
Flora Kneeland and Elmer Heliot (207)
Flora Kneeland and Elmer Heliot (208)
Clarissa Kneeland (209)
Clarissa Kneeland (210)
Clarissa Kneeland (211)
Clarissa Kneeland (212)
Clarissa Kneeland (213)
Clarissa Kneeland (214)
Clarissa Kneeland (215)
Clarissa Kneeland (216)
Clarissa Kneeland (217)
Clarissa Kneeland (218)
Clarissa Kneeland in Boulder (218A)
Ira Kneeland (219)
Ira Kneeland (220)
Ira Kneeland at Alberton Hall (221)
Ira and Clarissa Kneeland (222)
Ira and Clarissa Kneeland (223)
Ira and Clarissa Kneeland (224)
Kneeland relative (225)
Ira Kneeland (226)
Ira Kneeland (227)

       Kneeland, George and Mary (parents)

George and Mary in the snow, ca.1920 (KBM 48)
George and Mary Kneeland at Sirivijo (?), 191- (KBM 24)
George and Mary Kneeland at Prather, ca.1920 (KBM 30)
Mary Kneeland at Prather, ca. 1920 (KBM 22)
Mary Kneeland, ca.192- (KBM 38)

      Kneeland, Ira and Clarissa

Clarissa, ca.192- (KBM 32)
Clarissa at Eagle's Nest (?) ca.194- [see also Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 8)
Clarissa at Prather, ca.1920 (KBM 23)
Clarissa in the snow, ca.1920 (KBM 44)
Clarissa in the snow, ca.194- (KBM 69)
Clarissa playing with a dog in front of greenhouse, 193- (KBM 70)
Clarissa and friend. Model A in background, ca.1940 (KBM 50)
Clarissa and friends along rock wall, ca.194- (KBM 42)
Clarissa and friends on Black Mountain (?), ca.194- (KBM 43)
Ira in front of small, newly completed house on, ca.193- (KBM 56)
Ira in front of Page (?) house, ca.194- (KBM 3)
Ira in the snow, undated (KBM 45)
Ira and Clarissa, ca. 193- (KBM 33)
Ira and Clarissa, ca. 194- [see also Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 34)
Ira and Clarissa in front of their home, ca. 194-. 2 copies (KBM 2)
Ira showing Page boys a view from Black Mountain, ca.194- (KBM 57)
Ira showing the Page boys a fruit tree, ca.194- (KBM 59)
Ira talking to the Page boys in front of building, ca.194- (KBM 61)

       Kneeland home

First Kneeland home, ca.1920 (KBM 55)
Ira and Clarissa's kitchen, ca.193-? (KBM 63)
Kneeland home, ca.1914-? [see also Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 5)
Kneeland home, ca.194-? [see also Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 14)
Rooftop view of Kneeland home, ca.192- (KBM 68)
Side view of Kneeland house, undated (KBM 67)
Upper story of house, ca.194-. Original (KBM 1)
View from Kneeland house, undated (KBM 65)

        Mexico
             Agriculture (numbered), 1894 and undated             
             "The vineyard two years from cuttings." May 18, 1894 (318)
             "Grapes two years from cuttings. Engineer Farm." May 18, 1894 (297)
             Produce. Includes "18 lbs. of onions, 8 lbs. of carrot, 6 lbs of potatoes." A "First   
             Credit Foncier Bee Hive" is in the background, undated (301)
             S.S. Korrigan. "Loading cattle at Topolobampo," undated (389)
             Aqua Caliente de Baca (all numbered), undated
                Aqua Caliente de Baca, Sinaloa, undated (499)
                Distillery at Aqua Caliente de Baca, Sinaloa, undated (502)
             Buildings (all numbered) [see also Aqua Caliente de Baca, 502 and San Jose, 
             Numbered, 430 and 432], 1894 and undated
                Overlooking numerous buildings in an unidentified town, undated (494)
                In Fuerte looking down onto a building, undated (414)
                "Status of adobe house." May 18, 1894 (289)
                "Home of Mr. Hays" at Los Mochis. May 17, 1894 (283)
                View inside the courtyard of a building (possibly the court of the Superintendent's 
                dwelling). A train is in the background, undated (434)
                Court of Superintendent's dwelling, undated (435)
            Jesus Maria (all numbered), undated
                At the Jesus Maria, undated (438)
                Jesus Maria mine, San Jose de Gracia, Sinaloa, undated (444)
                Entrance to Jesus Maria mine, San Jose, undated (453)
            People, undated
                 Numbered
                     Unidentified group of men and boys, undated (471)
                     Group of unidentified people standing among fiesta decorations, undated (458)
                     Men on horses with palm trees in the background, undated (407)
                 Unnumbered
            San Jose (see also Jesus Maria), undated
                 Numbered
                     San Jose de Gracia, Sinaloa, undated (426)
                     Overlooking San Jose, undated (442)
                     Among the mines near San Jose. Taken during fiesta, undated (455)
                     Overlooking a building in San Jose. El Puerte de Mazatlan building is in the 
                         background, undated (432)
                     El Puerte de Mazatlan building in San Jose, undated (430)
                     Rosario Stamp Mill near San Jose de Gracia, Sinaloa, undated (464)
                Unnumbered
            Miscellaneous (all numbered), undated
                     One of the hot springs at Lanphars, undated (154)
                     Fiesta decoration, undated (459)

      Miscellaneous family and friends

Group in front of adobe store at Prather under construction, ca. World War I. Left to right: Unidentified, Ira Kneeland, Unidentified, Clarissa Kneeland, Mary Kneeland, Unidentified, Unidentified, George Kneeland, Unidentified. 4 copies (KBM 28)
Close up of adobe store at Prather, under construction, ca. World War I (KBM 37, see also KBM 28)
Group of residents or visitors, ca.1920 (KBM 35)
Group of children at Prather School (?), ca.1920 (KBM 36)
Group of unidentified people standing in front of Heliot's Grocery Store, undated (KBM 6)
Group of unidentified people standing in front of a house, undated (KBM 41)
Group of unidentified people (one resembling Clarissa Kneeland), undated (KBM 25)
Kneeland girls on top floor of new adobe store with Debs and Stedman poster, ca.1918. 2 copies (KBM 29)
Mary Kneeland and Mrs. Page (?) in the snow, ca.1920 (KBM 49)
Mary Kneeland and another woman in front of Page (?) home, Prather, ca.193- (KBM 17)
Daisy Viola Belle Heliot Gabriel (niece) in front of Kneeland house, ca.192- (KBM 64)
Ira's friend and a dog in the snow, ca.1920 (KBM 51)
Two of Ira's friends, ca.1920 (KBM 53)
Children visiting at Kneeland house, ca.193-. Left to right: Cyril Gabriel, Clarissa Gabriel, Lois Gabriel, Ina Clare Heliot, Lavern Heliot, Bert Heliot, Cedric Gabriel, Viola Gabriel (KBM 66)
Mary Miller, undated (KMB 74)
Dr. William Miller and his wife, Mary. The Nature Conservancy site on Black Mountain is named after Mary Miller, undated (KBM 73)
A Page boy, 193- (KBM 9)
Page (?) boy in front of Prather adobe, 194-. 2 copies (KBM 15)
Ira Kneeland's friend. (KBM 46)

      Nature on Black Mountain, undated

Carpenteria flower. From a color slide [shelved with Photographs; Oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 72)
Close-up of a Carpenteria flower (color) (KBM 75)
Unidentified porch with various plants (KBM 76)
Vegetation in front of Kneeland house (KBM 71)

      Page Hollow, undated

Kneeland Black Mountain print-Page Hollow (?), ca.192-. 2 copies [see also oversize in map case A, drawer 7] (KBM 13)
A workhorse standing next to a small building, undated (PH 6)
Two men using workhorses, undated (PH 4)
Two men digging, undated (PH 5)
A man working in front of a small house, undated (PH 8)
A man working in front of a small house, undated (PH 9A)
A young man leaning on a large stack of bricks, undated (PH 7)
The beginning of a brick building, undated (PH 13)
A partially completed brick building, undated (PH 12)
A partially completed brick building, undated (PH 14)
A distant view of a partially completed brick building, undated (PH 16)
A distant view of a partially completed brick building, undated (PH 17)
A completed brick building, undated (PH 18)
Three people looking at a partially completed brick building, undated (PH 15)
Three unidentified people standing in a greenhouse, undated (PH 1)
A man standing in the yard of an unidentified house, undated (PH 3)
A man sitting next to a plant, undated (PH 9B)
Group of people eating watermelon in front of a small house, undated (PH 11)
Two watermelons placed near a small house, undated (PH 10)
Unidentified house, undated (PH 2)

      Oversize [shelved in map case A, drawer 7]

KBM 4
KBM 5
KBM 8
KBM 13
KBM 14
KBM 34
KBM 72


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