California Views:
The Pat Hathaway Photo Collection

Pat Hathaway, Photo Archivist

Richard J. Arnold (6/28/1856- 5/19/1929)
Was active on the central California Coast from Alameda, San Luis Obisbo, Santa Barbara and finally in Monterey. Arnold replaced C.W.J. Johnson as the official photographer at the Del Monte Hotel in 1902.
And early photo of the 11th U.S. Cavalry at the Presidio of Monterey. Arnold was not only a talented photographer but was also a collector of other early California photographers negatives and images. R.J. Arnold died in Monterey on May 19 of 1929.
Arnold was replaced by J. P. Graham as Hotel del Monte photographer in 1924.
Holdings: over 700 images from 4x5, 5x7, 5x8, 6½x8½ , 8x10 glass negatives and original prints.

Edgar A. Cohen (09/23/1859 - 4/7/1939)
Was active from 1898, and some of his earliest views are of Fernside, the A. A. Cohen family estate in Alameda. E. A. Cohen traveled all over the state from Fort Ross in the Northern part to San Diego in the South, photographed Mt. Tamalpais, Yosemite and most of the California Missions. He was in San Francisco for the 1906 earthquake and documented the ruins of the city. He called Monterey County, ”the best place to photograph over any place I know.” Cohen used a 5”x7” Pony Premo No. 6, a folding field camera, to record his views, and often hand colored his prints.
Holdings: over 2,140 images 5”x7” glass negatives, original prints—some hand colored prints. E. A. Cohen gallery

C. B. Clark (08/12/1868 -03/ /1951)
Corroll B. Clark came to California in 1875 with his family first to San Jose then to the Monterey area in 1895 he had a tintype gallery in a tent on Forest Avenue, he had studio's in a number of location in the Monterey, Pacific Grove area. He bought the studio of Miss. Preble in August of 1903 on Forest Avenue and sold it to Dan Freeman in 1905.
To see an image by Clark of the Congrational Church fire of 1910 Pacific Grove and photos of Asilomar.
For a time he had the Lovers Point studio just above the beach near 17th Street till 1932 when it was removed by the city. He also operated the Iris Theater in Pacific Grove. In 1920 he sold his studio to photographer M. E. White but bought it back in 1922. He is listed in the Polk's City directory at 225 Forsst Avenue from 1926-1939 as a photographer he gave up photography in the late 1930's to run a bookshop at the same address he passed away at the age of 82.
Holdings:over 300 images 5”x7” and 6½x8½ glass negatives, original prints and realphoto postcards.

Louis S. Slevin (11/7/1878 -11/9/1945)
L.S. Slevin came to Carmel in 1903 and opened a shop on Ocean Avenue He photographed all around Monterey County From Big Sur to Salinas. He left a rich visual history of the Carmel area in both Postcards and 5”x7” prints. Slevin and E.A. Cohen went out photographing together to Mission San Antonio in 1906 and around Carmel and Big Sur.
Slevin photographed the whaling station at Moss Landing in 1919. To see a image by Slevin.
He also photographed many of the shipwrecks on the Monterey Bay area.
Holdings: over 422 images 5x7 glass negatives, real photo postcards and original prints.

Anton Charles Heidrick (1/18/1876 - 9/8/1955)
One of Monterey’s premier photographers, A. C. Heidrick is well remembered for his panoramic views and his school photos. He was active from 1907 to 1945, and did all kinds of photographic work, from making real photo postcards to making long panoramic views around the Monterey Peninsula. Many of the images are of everyday life on the Peninsula and of the Army, the 11th Cavalry and the 76th Field Artillery at the Presidio of Monterey and also Camp Ord and Fort Ord.
He had several photo studios in Monterey: one of the early ones, at 109 Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey, was lost in the oil fire of 1924. Later studios were located at 232 and 482 Alvarado Street in Monterey. In the early 1940s he retired from active business and moved to San Diego County.
Holdings: include over 520 views by A.C. Heidrick himself or by Heidrick & Heidrick Studios.

Dan Freeman (10/26/1876-1/10/1962)
Daniel Freemen was born in New York city and came to the Monterey Peninsula in 1904.
He got his start in photography in 1905 when the Coastal steam schooner Gipsy ran aground at McAbee Beach, when he sold postcards and made $ 300.00 in three days.
Freeman had studios at 223 Forest Avenue and on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove and at 402 Alvarado Street in Monterey. Freeman was parter with William B. Cook
Freeman made a series on the California Mission in the 1930's
Holdings: over 200 glass plates, negatives and prints. a gift from his daughter Elsie Parsons and her son Rolland E. Parsons.

Lewis Josselyn (9/13/1883 - 3/14/1964)
He was born in San Diego and came to Carmel with his family in 1914.
Was the official photographer for the Forest Theater in Carmel. He also photographed all over California, including the California Missions, Yosemite, the Redwoods, life in Carmel and the Monterey Bay area, and the building of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast—including the construction of Bixby Creek Bridge south of Carmel and the Big Sur Post Office. We have in the Josselyn collection a series of negatives of Jo Mora (1876-1947) Sculptor, artist and writer in his studio in Pebble Beach with a number of his works. And Robinson Jeffers and Tor House, the 1924 fires of the Oil Tanks and Del Monte Hotel
Holdings: 5”x7” and 6½x8½ glass plates and film negatives, and original prints. to see more photos by Josselyn.
We have over 3,000 images by Lewis Josselyn a gift from his widow.

George J. Seideneck (2/4/1885 - 3/7/1972)
George Seideneck was born on Feb. 4, 1885 in Chicago he came to Carmel in March of 1918. A artist, oil painter and photographer . He took what is the most seen image of Cannery Row in 1945 of California Packing Corporation plant 101 on Cannery Row. He also photographed Carmel and Carmel Valley and the Big Sur Coast.
Holdings: over 1050 images 2 1/4 x2 1/4 and 4x5 negatives and original prints a gift from the photographer.

Burton Frasher (7/25/1888 - 4/24/1955)
He was born in Aurora, Colorado in 1888 and in the early 1900's he had a photo studio in Wapato, Washington later moving to Lordsburg, California and still later settling in Pomona, Los Angeles Co. in 1920.
He was active in California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico from the midteens in to the early 1950's.'
His real photo postcards will often have his imprint on the front of the cards reads Frashers. Inc., Pomona, Calif. and on the back you will find a variety of backs one popular one was Frashers Foto Card. He was married and had a son Burton Frasher Jr. born on August 19, 1915.
Holdings over 156 real photo postcards an on going collection.

Alexander J. "Zan" Stark (4/10/1889- 3/17/1967)
He was born in Michigan moving to California in his early 20's. He first lived in San Francisco moving to Mill Valley in the mid 1920's
Zan Stark was a postcard photographer from and had his studio at 324 Miller Avenue in Mill Valley in Marin Co., California. He worked from the 1920's into the early 1950's under the name Zan of Tamalpais.
Zan photographed the California coast from Monterey Co., Big Sur, the Redwood Highway and most of Northern California and also up in to Oregon.
He also photographed in San Francisco, Sonoma Co., Napa Co. Santa Cruz Co., Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake and over into Nevada and Utah.
He moved to Sonoma around 1952 and died on March 17th, 1967 in a Sonoma resthome.
Holdings: over 831 postcards is an on going collection. A view by Zan of Ocean Avenue in Carmel, Calif. Zan Gallery

Wm. L. Morgan (1902-1967)
William was born on May 18, 1902 and died in Monterey on December 8, 1967
In the 1920s he worked for his parints Clyde H. and Hattie at Peninsula Printing Co.
The family lives at 405 Reeside Ave., Monterey
Holdings: over 800 images

George A. Robinson (10/23/1913 - 4/20/1979)
Views of Cannery Row and Monterey fishing industry He was the personnel supervisor for California Packing Corporation plant 101 on Cannery Row, Monterey in 1946-1962 also views of Carmel and Carmel Valley. When plant 101 closed he moved to San Jose returning to Monterey in 1972.
Holdings: over 256 2x2, 4"x5" film negatives and prints a gift from the photographer and from his widow.

Theodore S. McKay "Ted" (11/15/1903 - 1/28/1987)
A collection of 4x5 and 5x7 negative of aerial views of Monterey, Cannery Row, Carmel and Big Sur in the late 1930's. Ted and his brother John had Mckay's Camera shop on Alvarado Street in Monterey.
Ted did a wonderful job of documenting the Monterey area with his 5x7 aerial camera.
Holdings: 76 negatives a gift from the photographer Ted McKay and his son Peter McKay.