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Home > University Libraries > HASC - Digital Archives > Western Americana > Stockton Photographs > Spooner California Stereograph Collection

Spooner California Stereograph Collection

This collection consists of stereographs taken by John Pitcher Spooner in California between approximately 1875 and 1905. Most of the photos are of Stockton and include downtown businesses and buildings, private homes, local farms, the Stockton Rural Cemetery, and the California State Hospital and Insane Asylum.

John Pitcher Spooner (1845-1917) was a prominent Stockton photographer. After working for the Bradley-Rulofson Company, a photographic firm in San Francisco, Pitcher moved to Stockton around 1875. He operated a photographic studio here from the 1870s to the early 1900s (he advertised himself as a "Photographist"). In addition to the John Pitcher Spooner stereographs, the Spooner Family Papers (MSS 270) are also located in Special Collections. Stereographs consist of two paper prints of the same image mounted side by side on card stock. When viewed through a stereoscope, they produce a three dimensional image.

Stereographs were very popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The online images of the Spooner stereographs appear as three dimensional photos when viewed through 3D glasses or a stereoscope.

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  • Graysonville: "Graysonville, Cal." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Graysonville: "Graysonville, Cal."

  • Original Marine Hospital, San Francisco: (View of buildings). by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Original Marine Hospital, San Francisco: (View of buildings).

  • San Francisco: (Merchant's Exchange building with clock tower, showing occupancy of three insurance firms.) by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    San Francisco: (Merchant's Exchange building with clock tower, showing occupancy of three insurance firms.)

  • San Francisco: Russian Hill from Meiggs' Wharf (Man on dock by water.) by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    San Francisco: Russian Hill from Meiggs' Wharf (Man on dock by water.)

  • Stockton: "Aboard the Steamer 'Mary Garratt.'" by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "Aboard the Steamer 'Mary Garratt.'"

  • Stockton: “Aboard the Steamer ‘Mary Garratt.’” by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: “Aboard the Steamer ‘Mary Garratt.’”

  • Stockton: "Baggs Res." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "Baggs Res."

  • Stockton: "Baggs Residence. Res of Wm. M. Baggs Esq." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "Baggs Residence. Res of Wm. M. Baggs Esq."

  • Stockton: (Barn and horses.) by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: (Barn and horses.)

  • Stockton: (Barn by orchard.) by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: (Barn by orchard.)

  • Stockton: (Black and Brothers Family Grocery Store, next to San Joaquin Valley Bank.) by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: (Black and Brothers Family Grocery Store, next to San Joaquin Valley Bank.)

  • Stockton: "Bob. Howes Residence." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "Bob. Howes Residence."

  • Stockton: "B. W. Bours." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "B. W. Bours."

  • Stockton: "B.W. Bours." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "B.W. Bours."

  • Stockton: "B. W. Bours Carriage Way." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "B. W. Bours Carriage Way."

  • Stockton: "B. W. Bours ground." by John Pitcher Spooner 1845-1917

    Stockton: "B. W. Bours ground."

 

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