Category:Lawrence and Houseworth

Lawrence and Houseworth were a pair of San Francisco photographers who documented northern California (and into western Nevada) as it was in the years after 1859. They came to Santa Cruz County at least once, in 1866, and the photographs from that visit are among our most important historical images from the years 1866-1870. Edna Kimbro wrote that the Mission Santa Cruz photos were taken in 1866, in "Construction Chronology..." (assuming L and H only came here once). The Society of California Pioneers "online photographic database" of 1,495 images (lower-res versions downloadable), including 15 images of the Santa Cruz area, numbered:

• 31 Santa Cruz Tannery (Boston-Jones)
• 32 Mission Plaza (wide view)
• 33 pan right from #34, includes Thompson house, Sisters school, Alzina house, Leslie store(?), Pacific Ocean House (beyond), 1st Mission Hill School, Methodist church
• 34 Mission plaza, includes rectory(?), adobe chapel, 1858 church, zanja crossing plaza, Fallon bldg, Rodriguez adobe, Sisters convent (old juzgado), Wm. Thompson house, Sisters school, Alzina house
• 35 1857 Holy Cross and adobe, repaired adobe chapel w wood front, zanja in foreground
• 36 Lower plaza
• 37 Pacific Ocean House
• 38 Davis & Cowell wharf, from west cliff
• 39 Same view, but closer, tram going down wharf (no horses)
• 40 Looking west along cliffs from same spot
• 41 toward Santa Cruz from river mouth (footbridge?): Methodist church in middle, Mission Hill school, Sisters school, convent, Holy Cross far right
• 42 pan right from #41
• 43 San Lorenzo Paper Mill (now in Paradise Park)
• 44 "View on the San Lorenzo", no structures
• 45 Davis & Cowell Lime Company works

See:

• History Pages: 13 - The County
• History Pages: 15 - Uptown and Downtown
• Lawrence and Houseworth Collection, Library of Congress
• 1,495 Lawrence and Houseworth images, Society of California Pioneers