Category:Lawrence and Houseworth

Lawrence and Houseworth took some of the earliest photographs of locations in Santa Cruz County, during the years 1866-1870. Edna Kimbro said 1866 in "Construction Chronology..." (assuming they only came here once). 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 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