Category:Lawrence and Houseworth

Lawrence and Houseworth took some of the earliest photographs of locations in Santa Cruz County, during the years 1866-1870. The Society of California Pioneers has an "online photographic database" of 1,495 downloadable images, including 15 images 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 1858 Holy Cross church, 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