A Guide to the B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection LAVO PH Coll 1

LAVO PH Coll 1 - B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection

Creator/collector:	Loomis, Benjamin Franklin (B.F.)
Title:	B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection
Date Span:	1850s-1950s
Quantity/type:	52 glass-plate negatives 201 photographic prints, ambrotypes, and tintypes
Box numbers:	Prints: boxes 1-5 Negatives: boxes G1, G2 Ambrotypes: box G4 Preservation prints: boxes 38, 39
LAVO accession #	Collection is comprised of multiple accessions; see inventory and case file for accession numbers
LAVO catalog #	Many items have been cataloged individually; see inventory for catalog numbers

About the Collection:

The B.F. Loomis photographs of the Lassen Peak eruptions and aftermath are among the most famous images of Lassen Volcanic National Park (LAVO). These photographs are more widely used than any other LAVO photographs and copies of them are present in many collections throughout the archives. The B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection includes all of Loomis’ surviving glass plate negatives, as well as original prints and copy prints.

Biographical Note:

Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Loomis was one of the first and most significant of Lassen Volcanic National Park’s benefactors. His donation of land around Manzanita Lake ensured the ongoing preservation of important natural features, and his legacy of photographs of Lassen Peak in eruption have enriched the public’s appreciation and understanding of the Lassen region.

B.F. Loomis was born on March 21^st, 1857 in Mantega, Illinois, to Addison and Emily Loomis. As a small boy, Loomis traveled west with his parents and older brother, Orin Augustus, across the plains in a covered wagon. They settled in Tehama County, California. When B.F was nine, Emily Loomis died, and his father moved the family (now including sister Lucy Ella) to Red Bluff, CA.

In 1874, Loomis came to Manzanita Lake and built a small cabin. He made his living making and selling wood shakes in the summer, and working as a farm laborer in Battle Creek Bottoms during the winter. In 1886, Loomis attended the American Institute of Phrenology in New York City, and also took classes in anatomy, physiology, astronomy, and astrology. This was primarily for his own edification; he had no plans to become a practitioner or lecturer, though he studied and wrote on the topic for many years.

Following his studies, Loomis returned to California and to shake-making in the Manzanita Lake area. In 1888, he filed a homestead claim on Bailey Creek (present-day Viola), moved to his homestead in 1891, and built a general store in 1895.

In 1897, while serving on a jury in Redding, Loomis met fellow jurist Leander Vaness (L.V.) Loomis (1827-1909), an emigrant pioneer of Shasta County (and no relation to B.F. Loomis). The two men shared an interest in phrenology and astronomy, so Loomis spent the trial recess at the L.V. Loomis family home. Here, Loomis was introduced to L.V. Loomis’ daughter, Estella (1870-1953). B.F. and Estella Loomis were married on September 1, 1897. Their only child, Louisa Mae, was born June 16, 1899.

While Estella ran the Viola store and post office, Loomis transported freight to Viola and shakes to the Sacramento Valley. In 1910, Loomis bought the Vilas Mill and began a large-scale lumber business with the considerable timber lands that he had acquired. Loomis also owned and ran the Viola Hotel in Viola, CA, originally located in Shingletown but relocated by Loomis.

Loomis bought his first camera in 1898 from Estella’s brother Arthur, who was a commercial photographer in Redding. When Lassen Peak began to erupt in 1914, Loomis was among the first photographers to capture images of the event. His photographs and written accounts of the eruptions provide some of the best documentation of the 1914 and 1915 volcanic activity. Widely disseminated at the time in the press, Loomis later published many of his photographs in his book, Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano.

Loomis was a strong and active advocate for the formation of Lassen Volcanic National Park, and worked hard to stimulate public interest in the natural wonders of the region. When Loomis’ daughter Louisa Mae died after a brief, unidentified illness at age 20, he built the Louisa Mae Loomis Memorial Museum at Manzanita Lake to house and showcase a substantial collection of photographs and artifacts for the public. Loomis deeded the museum, seismograph station, and surrounding 40 acres to Lassen Volcanic National Park in 1929.

When Loomis retired from business in Viola, he and Estella established a summer residence and art shop next to the museum at Manzanita Lake. B.F. Loomis died of cancer in 1935; Estella continued to live in the area until her death in 1953.

Scope and Content:

The B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection contains images of the Lassen Peak eruptions and aftermath, natural and man made features in the region, Loomis’ lumbering business, and the Loomis family. The collection contains most of the photographs that appear in Loomis’ book, Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano.

This collection contains Loomis’ original glass plate negatives.

Note on Arrangement:

The collection is divided into four series:

Series 1: Lassen Peak eruptions and aftermath, and other regional images

Series 2: Loomis lumbering business

Series 3: Loomis family photographs

Series 4: Other photographs from Pictorial History of Lassen Volcano

Alternate Forms Available:

Digital prints made from scans of the glass plate negatives are available for reference.

Terms of Use and Access:

The collection is open to the public. Contact the park for information regarding reproduction or publication.

Glass plate negatives are not available for use. Reproduction requests may be filled using scans.

Acquisition Information:

The B.F. Loomis Photograph collection was donated to the park by B.F. and Estella Loomis in multiple gifts over the years. Accession information is in the collection case files.

Related Material:

The LAVO Administrative Records contain some B.F. Loomis papers.

Bibliography:

Loomis, B.F. Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano. Loomis Museum Association, published in cooperation with the National Park Service, Mineral: 1926.

Processing Note:

Prints in the B.F. Loomis Photographs for which there are no negatives include original prints and copy prints; sometimes a modern copy print is the only extant object for an image.

Over the years, numerous copy prints of the Loomis images were made, most often from a copy negative that was in turn made from a copy print. As these secondary and tertiary copies were made, image quality fell and information within the image was lost. The copy prints were probably made by park staff for reference, exhibits, or to fill other reproduction requests, and are not original materials from the collection. All superfluous, inferior copy prints of Loomis images have now been removed from the LAVO photograph archives. Reproduction requests for Loomis images should be filled using images from PH Coll 1, the B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection.

The B.F. Loomis Photograph Collection also contains photographs not made by Loomis. These include original and copy negatives of Lassen Peak eruption photographs made by other photographers, and studio portraits of family.

In 2005, LAVO obtained funding to make preservation prints and maximum resolution scans of all of Loomis’ glass plate negatives. The project was completed in 2006.

INVENTORY

Series One: Lassen Peak eruptions and aftermath, and other regional images

Items 1-52 are glass plate negatives; prints are available for reference. Figure numbers have been added to descriptions for images that appear in Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano (PHLV).

Item	Description	Date	Catalog #
1.1	Lassen Peak over Manzanita Lake erupting small plume of ash PHLV: horizontal fronts-piece	circa 1914	2420
1.2	Lassen Peak over Manzanita Lake erupting small plume of ash PHLV: vertical fronts-piece	circa 1914	2421
1.3	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig.2	June 4, 1914	2422
1.4	Lassen Peak eruption of steam and ash, seen from divide between Chaos Crags and Lassen Peak PHLV: fig. 4	June 9, 1914	2423
1.5-1.10	Six successive views of Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Manzanita Chute PHLV: figs. 5a-f	June 14, 1914	2424-2429
1.11	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig. 6	June 20, 1914	2430
1.12	Lassen Peak in eruption from Volta near Manton. Photograph by R.S. Ballou. PHLV: fig.7		2431
1.13	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig. 12	October 12, 1914	2432
1.14	Lassen Peak lookout house showing damage from recent eruptions with man at right PHLV: fig. 13b	October 12, 1914	2433
1.15	Man looking through telescope near almost completely demolished Lassen Peak lookout house PHLV: fig. 13c	October 20, 1914	2434

Item	Description		Date	Catalog #
1.16	Huge cloud of steam and ash erupting from Lassen peak. Dubbed the “Vulcan Face” by Loomis, the cloud resembles the profile of a human face. Photograph by US Forest Ranger, developed and copyrighted by R.E. Stinson, later copyrighted by B.F. Loomis. This is a cropped copy; see LAVO PH Coll M9 for copy of un-cropped image. PHLV: fig. 14a		August 19, 1914	2435
1.17	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig.18		October 20, 1914	2436
1.18	Crater on Lassen Peak summit showing new lava formations created during the eruptions in May of 1915. Otto Albers standing in crater at bottom center shows the scale of the crater. PHLV: fig. 19		May 1915	2437
1.19	Lassen Peak erupting steam, seen from Manzanita Chute PHLV: fig. 20		May 22, 1915	2438
1.20	Lost Creek after being washed out from Lassen Peak mudflow. The creek edge is swept clean of trees and G.R. Milford is standing in washout at bottom right PHLV: fig. 21		circa May, 1915	2439
1.21	Devastated Area showing track of Lassen Peak mud flow with Chaos Crags in background and several men sitting by tree at right. The tree shows damage from mudflow PHLV: fig. 23		circa May, 1915	2440
1.22	Group of people standing in front of large boulder washed down from Lassen Peak crater by mud flow PHLV: 24		circa May, 1915	2441
1.23	Three men standing around log and rock jam caused by blown down trees and boulders lodged against trees by mudflow PHLV: fig. 25a		circa May, 1915	2442
1.24	Terminal moraine on Lost Creek washed out by mudflow. Geologist J.S. Diller (see LAVO PH Coll 14) is kneeling in washout at center and Lassen Peak is in background PHLV: fig. 26		circa May, 1915	2443
1.25	Devastated Area at Lost Camp showing mud and blown-down trees PHLV: fig. 28		circa May, 1915	2444
1.26	Lassen Peak in eruption from Anderson, CA, by Mr. Meyers. Known as the “Umbrella Cloud” picture, this image is probably a composite photograph, where the ash cloud was cut out of a different picture and pasted onto an image of Lassen Peak taken from Anderson. The effect shows a dramatic yet probably false view of the eruption from Anderson. Loomis’ glass plate negative of this image is a copy negative. PHLV: fig. 32		May 22, 1915	2445
1.27	Lassen Peak showing new lava flow on summit and large mudflows on slopes		May 24, 1915	2446
1.28	Devastated area near Hat Lake showing mud and fallen trees PHLV: fig. 40		circa May, 1915	2447
1.29	Mud flow and trees blown down by volcanic hot blast against Raker Peak PHLV: fig. 41		circa May, 1915	2448
1.30	Devastated Area at the base of Lassen Peak showing “craterlets,” where steam from hot rocks buried in the mud created small craters PHLV: fig. 42		May 1915	2449
1.31	Lassen Peak steaming after an eruption, seen from Manzanita Chute PHLV: fig. 43		July, 1915	2450
1.32	Two men standing near lava flow on west slope of Lassen Peak Summit PHLV: fig. 48		1915	2451
1.33	Otto Albers standing against boulder in center of deep crevice in crater on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig. 50a		1915	2452
1.34	Lassen Peak summit looking across the new crater to Mineral Point where lookout house was located PHLV: fig. 51a		1915	2453
1.35	Lassen Peak over Manzanita Lake with a small jet of steam coming from summit PHLV: fig. 51b		1915	2454
1.36	East side of Lassen Peak after the mud flows showing remaining snow banks and new lava on summit PHLV: fig. 54		1915	2455
1.37	Lassen Peak eruption seen from Manzanita Chute with ash cloud blowing toward southwest		June 16, 1915	2456
1.38	Lassen Peak eruption seen from Manzanita Chute with ash cloud blowing toward northeast		1915	2457
1.39	Chaos Crags and Lassen Peak over Reflection Lake with small steam cloud erupting from Lassen Peak summit		circa 1915	2458
1.40	Lost Creek drainage area covered in mud, rocks, and debris from mudflow		1915	2459
1.41	Lassen Peak and Devastated Area after mudflow and hot blast		1915	2460
1.42	Group of men sitting on log jam at Lost Creek caused by mudflow		1915	2461
1.43	Two men standing near fumarole at Bumpass Hell			2462
1.44	South side of Raker Peak prior to mud flow and hot blast of May 1915			2463
1.45	Lassen Peak over Manzanita Lake			2464
1.46	Loomis seismograph station at Manzanita Lake			2465
1.47	View of Lassen Peak in eruption from downtown Red Bluff. Photograph by R.E. Stinson PHLV: fig. 30a		May 22, 1915	2466
1.48-1.49	Two successive views of Lassen Peak in eruption from Manzanita Lake. Photographs by Chester Mullen PHLV: fig. 44b, 44c		October 6, 1915	2467, 2468
1.50	Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) “Frank” Loomis			2469
1.51	Estella Loomis			2470
1.52	Louisa Mae Loomis			2471
1.53	Lassen Peak over Manzanita Lake PHLV: fig. 1		circa 1900
1.54	West slope of Lassen Peak from head of Manzanita Creek, (possibly) Crescent Cliff in foreground
1.55	Lassen Peak summit showing new crater in foreground and lookout house on top of peak at left PHLV: fig. 11		October 12, 1914
1.56a, b	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit		June 20, 1914
1.57	Close up of aa lava formation on Lassen Peak summit PHLV: fig. 47
1.58	Pinnacles of lava on Lassen Peak summit formed during 1915 eruptions PHLV: fig. 49		circa 1925
1.59	Lassen Peak over Jessen Meadow before mud flow PHLV: fig. 38		August, 1910
1.60	Lassen Peak from Devastated Area (view from former Jessen Meadow) PHLV: fig. 39		circa 1925
1.61	Lassen Peak from Devastated Area		circa 1925
1.62-1.63	Steam issuing from summit of Lassen Peak from head of Lost Creek following mudflow. “Hot Rock” (large boulder) in foreground. Photographs taken a few hours prior to second major eruption and hot blast. 1.63 shows back of man’s head in lower right PHLV: fig. 53, 22		May 22, 1915
1.64	Lassen Peak from head of Lost Creek after mudflow and hot blast with trees on side of Crescent Crater blown away. “Hot Rock” (large boulder) in foreground PHLV: fig. 35		May, 1915
1.65	Devastated Area showing blown-down trees with Hat Mountain in background PHLV: fig. 37		1915
1.66	Terminal moraine on Lost Creek washed out by mudflow		1915
1.67	West end of Crescent Cliff showing path of mud flow. A car is parked among trees at lower left PHLV: fig. 50b
1.68	Lassen Peak from Crescent Cliff showing area covered in mud from mudflow down west side of Lassen Peak PHLV: 46
1.69	Chaos Crags, Lassen Peak, Eagle Peak, and Loomis Peak, from Manzanita Chute		circa 1920s
1.70	Man holding telescope, standing among rocks thrown from crater on Lassen Peak summit with the steaming crater in background. See also 1.15		October 20, 1914	2660
1.71	Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags over Manzanita Lake. Two men are in small rowboat on lake			2648
1.72	Lassen Peak, Eagle Peak, and Loomis Peak over Manzanita Lake. The lake is under five feet of snow		February 7, 1899	2566
1.73	Chaos Crags and Lassen Peak from frozen Manzanita Lake. The lake is under five feet of snow		1898	2565
1.74	Chaos Crags over Reflection Lake			2571
1.75	Chaos Crags and Lassen Peak over Reflection Lake			2573
1.76	View northwest from foot of Lassen Peak showing path of mudflow. Chaos Crags is at right, Manzanita Lake to north			2568
1.77	Chaos Crags from divide between Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags			2570
1.78	Vulcan’s Castle			2576
1.79	Lassen Peak over Soda Lake			2569
1.80	Vulcan’s Castle and Eagle Peak over Soda Lake			2567
1.81	Brokeoff Mountain over meadow and stream			2646
1.82	Steep rock cliff on Brokeoff Mountain over small lake			2575
1.83	Cinder Cone		1914	2572
1.84	Cinder Cone			2574
1.85	Lassen Peak and surrounding range seen from Redding, CA, courthouse			2561
1.86	Lassen Peak and surrounding range from Redding, CA. View framed by Palm trees			2562
1.87	Interior of Subway Cave			2662
1.88	Louisa Mae Loomis (second from left) and three friends standing in front of entrance to Subway Cave		circa 1919	2661
1.89	Chaos Crags framed by trees. (Print hand-tinted by Estella Loomis)		1937	2540
The following two items are part of series one, though they are numbered out of sequence.
1.200		Peter Lassen’s adobe house on Deer Creek in Tehama County, built in 1844 and torn down in 1886 (box 5)		612
1.201		Portrait of Helen Tanner Brodt (box 5)		614

Series Two: Loomis lumbering business

Item	Description	Date	Catalog #
1.90	Small shake cabin in woods along Manzanita Creek built in 1894 by B.F. Loomis who lived in it for three summers while making wood shakes	1898	2478
1.91	B.F. Loomis (right) and Charles Rufus Clark making wood shakes in Shingletown area. The men are standing in front of tall stacks of completed shakes	1877	2654
1.92	Two loggers with crosscut saw standing on springboards in tree		2653
1.93	Two loggers with crosscut saw standing on springboards in Sugar Pine tree with large cross cut in trunk below. Felling axes and a hat on pile of chips at base of tree		2501
1.94	Loggers in woods standing around wagon loaded with large logs with harnessed team of horses at left, traction engine at right, and man doffing hat and woman on horseback in center		2497, 2659
1.95	Loomis mill lumberyard at Viola, CA		2502
1.96	Men in Loomis mill lumberyard at Viola, CA		2476
1.97	Loomis mill lumberyard at Viola, CA with men standing by two loaded trucks parked in front of tall stacks of lumber	1923	2477
1.98	Loomis mill lumberyard at Viola, CA showing large log pile, several structures, and slough		2650
1.99, 1.100	Loomis mill lumberyard at Viola, CA with group of men standing in front of tall log pile		2499, 2500
1.101	Trailers piled with large logs underneath log-and-pulley crane, and man standing beside traction engine hooked to trailers		2652
1.102	Best Engines in Loomis mill lumberyard pulling trailers loaded with logs		2655
1.103	Best Engines hauling trailers loaded with logs		2651
1.104	Men sitting on Holt Traction engine with trailers loaded with logs		2658
1.105	Men sitting on Holt Traction engine with trailers loaded with logs. Note indicates that load is 14,534 board feet		2496
1.106	Best Engine hauling seven trailers of lumber		2649
1.107	Holt Traction engine hauling six trailers of lumber		2656
1.108	Two Holt Traction engines hauling trailers of lumber		2657
1.109	Holt Traction engine hauling lumber to Cottonwood, CA from Viola		2498

Series Three: Loomis Family Photographs

Item	Description	Date	Catalog #
1.110	Estella and B.F. Loomis in carriage leaving home of L.V. Loomis after their wedding with L.V. Loomis standing at right	1897	2522
1.111	Estella Loomis holding two-month old daughter, Louisa Mae Loomis	1899	2472
1.112	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl standing in tall grass		2624
1.113	Estella Loomis, five years old, sitting on stool and holding doll. Photograph by J.J. Bennett, Pioche, NV	2474
1.114	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl. The portrait is inset onto image of forest	January 1, 1905	751
1.115	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl standing outside in snow with dog “Rover,” harnessed to small two-wheeled cart		2473
1.116	Louisa Mae as young girl feeding kittens on back porch of Loomis house at Viola		2563
1.117	Louisa Mae Loomis		2625
1.118	Louisa Mae Loomis		2626
1.119	Estella Loomis wedding portrait. Photograph by A.W. Loomis, Redding	1897	2577
1.120	Estella Loomis		2627
1.121	Estella Loomis and girl sitting in front of Loomis art store at Manzanita Lake	1933	2628
1.122	B.F. Loomis. Photograph by Weston Studio, Red Bluff. Comment on verso indicates that the picture was sent to Estella Loomis by B.F. Loomis prior to their marriage	circa 1896	2526
1.123	B.F. Loomis. Print is glued to photograph album cover along with 1.124		2644
1.124	B.F., Estella, and Louisa Mae Loomis. Print is glued to photograph album cover along with 1.123		2644
1.125	Exterior of B.F. Loomis residence in Anderson		2510
1.126	Interior of B.F. Loomis residence in Viola		2527
1.127	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl with toys beside Christmas tree in sitting room of Loomis home in Viola		2475
1.128	Loomis buildings under heavy snow in Viola, CA, with Estella and Louisa Mae Loomis on front porch of store	1906	2505
1.129	Loomis store and buildings under heavy snow	1906	2506
1.130	Interior of Loomis store in Viola		2504
1.131	Loomis store and residence at Manzanita Lake		2645
1.132	People and cars assembled out front of Viola Hotel, Viola, CA		2503
1.133	Man, possibly father or uncle of B.F. Loomis. Ambrotype in case with 1.134 (box G4)	circa 1850s
1.134	Woman, possibly Emily Doty Loomis, with Lucy and Orin Loomis. Ambrotype in case with 1.133 (box G4)	circa 1850s
1.135	Group of people standing behind fish hung on boards to dry. Estella and Louisa Mae Loomis at right		2647
1.136-1.137	Noble Pass dedication plaque (donated by B.F. and Estella Loomis)		611, 2564

Family Album 1

LAVO accession #258

LAVO catalog #2288

This album was a gift to Estella from B.F. Loomis. The cover has pastoral scene with inset of a man and a woman. The back and spine is red velvet, and the album closes with gold clasp. The album contains 32 cabinet cards and one small copy print of an ambrotype (1.134). Several photographs are duplicates of images in family series.

Page	Item	Description	Date
1	1.138	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl
2a	1.139	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl
2b	1.111	Estella Loomis holding two-month old Louisa Mae Loomis	1899
3a	1.122	B.F. Loomis
3b	1.119	Estella Loomis wedding portrait. Photograph by A.W. Loomis, Redding, CA	1897
4a	1.140	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl
4b	1.141	Arthur Loomis, brother of Estella Loomis
5a	1.142	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl
5b	1.143	Leander Vaness Loomis, father of Estella Loomis
6a	1.144	Orin Augustus Loomis, brother of B.F. Loomis
6b	1.145	Woman (possibly wife of Orin Loomis)
7a	1.146	Lucy Loomis Crooks, sister of B.F. Loomis, with daughter Ellie Crooks (Freymeyer)
7b	1.147	Addison Joab Loomis, father of B.F. Loomis, with other family members
8a	1.148	Baby girl, “Lizzie, born February 22, 1892”	1892
8b	1.149	Baby
9a	1.150	Two young girls
9b	1.151	Ellie Crooks (Freymeyer) as young girl
10a	1.152	Man (probably relative of B.F. Loomis)
10b	1.153	Orin Augustus Loomis
11a	1.154	Lucy Loomis Crooks, Ellie Crooks Freymeyer, and Estella Loomis
11b	1.155	Ellie and Mr. Freymeyer
12	1.156	Lucy Loomis Crooks with brothers Orin and B.F. Loomis
13a	1.134	Woman (possibly Emily Doty Loomis) with Lucy and Orin Loomis. Copy of ambrotype (1.134, in box G4)
13b	1.157	Louisa Mae Loomis as a young girl
14a	1.158	Woman (relative of B.F. Loomis)
14b	1.159	Celie Burger, relative of B.F. Loomis
15a	1.160	Richard J. Barrett, relative of B.F. Loomis
15b	1.161	George Burger, relative of B.f. Loomis
16a	1.162	Leander Vaness Loomis
16b	1.163	B.F. Loomis as a young man
17	1.164	B.F. Loomis
18a	1.165	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl, with doll	January 1, 1903
18b	1.114	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl	January 1, 1905

Family Album 2

LAVO accession #113

LAVO catalog #731

Due to deteriorating pages, the materials were removed from album 2. The empty maroon velvet album has been retained separately from its contents.

Item	Description	Date
1.166	Louisa Mae Loomis as a young girl, with doll on lap
1.114	Louisa Mae Loomis as young girl	January 1, 1905
1.119	Estella Loomis wedding portrait. Photograph by A.W. Loomis, Redding	1897
No number	Eight Souvenir photographs of Chester Arthur, Lillian Russell, U.S. Grant, Robert Ingersoll, Grover Cleveland, Peter Cooper, Henry Longfellow, and Henry George, and two decorative B.F. Loomis calling cards

Family Album 3

LAVO accession #258

LAVO catalog #2286

Due to deteriorating pages, the materials were removed from album 3. The empty maroon leather album has been retained separately from its contents.

Item	Description	Date
1.167	Addison Joab Loomis
1.168	Woman, possibly grandmother or aunt of B.F. Loomis	circa 1860
1.169	Lucy Loomis (Crooks) with brothers B.F. and Orin. Tintype	circa 1870s
1.170	Woman, “R.J. Loomis.” Tintype
1.171	Man. Mount is signed: “yours truly, Henry Bell.” Tintype
1.172	Orin Augustus Loomis
1.173	Estella Loomis as young woman
1.174	Ellie Crooks (Freymeyer) as young girl
1.175	George W. Rhone, Orristown, PA
1.176	Young man. Photograph by Nereus Baldwin Studio, Wichita, KS
1.177	Young man
1.178	Woman, possibly wife of Orin Loomis. Photograph by J.D. Reinhart Studio, Red Bluff, CA
1.179	Woman. Small print glued to album page with copy of 1.163
1.163	B.F. Loomis. Small print glued to album page with 1.179
No number	Four souvenir photographs and trade cards, one decorative calling card from Mr. and Mrs. O.S. Loomis.

Series Four: Other Photographs from Pictorial History of Lassen Volcano

These are copy prints of images that Loomis used in his book, mostly by photographers other than Loomis. The park does not have the original prints or negatives for these photographs.

Item	Description	Date
1.180	Bottom of crater on Lassen Peak summit. Photograph by Hampton PHLV: fig. 9	September 27, 1914
1.181	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Lost Camp. Photograph by R. L. Fillmore PHLV: fig. 10
1.182	Lassen Peak lookout house prior to eruption with dog standing at corner of house. Photograph by Hampton PHLV: fig.13a
1.183	Woman sitting among ruins of Lassen Peak lookout house after it was demolished by eruptions. Photograph by Hampton PHLV: fig. 13d	August 8, 1915
1.184	Steam and ash cloud from Lassen Peak eruption. Photograph by Mrs. Bond PHLV: fig. 15a	August 19. 1914
1.185	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from near Little Hot Springs Valley PHLV: fig. 15b	August 22, 1914
1.186	Steam and ash cloud from Lassen Peak eruption. Photograph by Mrs. Bond PHLV: fig. 16a
1.187	Steaming crater on Lassen Peak summit. Photograph by Mrs. Bond PHLV: fig. 16b
1.188	Men and horse on Lassen Peak summit near steaming crater. Photograph by Hampton PHLV: fig. 17b	1914
1.189	William Halsebo standing in front of boulder washed against tree by mudflow. Photograph by Loomis PHLV: fig. 27
1.190	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Mineral, CA. Photograph by Hampton PHLV: fig. 29b	May 22, 1915
1.191	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Red Bluff, CA. Photograph by R.E. Stinson PHLV: fig. 30b	May 22, 1915
1.192	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Red Bluff. Photograph by R.E. Stinson PHLV: fig. 31a	May 22, 1915
1.193	Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Anderson. Photograph by R. I. Meyers PHLV: fig. 31b	May 22, 1915
1.194	Boulder heated by volcanic activity, broken into pieces after cooling. Photograph by Loomis PHLV: fig. 34
1.195	Snags and rocks in area of deepest mudflow and center of hot blast of May 22, 1915. Photograph by Loomis PHLV: fig. 36b
1.196	Lassen Peak in eruption over Reflection Lake. First of four successive views of eruption. Photograph by Chester Mullen PHLV: fig. 44a	October 6, 1915
1.197	Lassen Peak in eruption over Reflection Lake. Fourth of four successive views of eruption. Photograph by Chester Mullen PHLV: fig. 44d	October 6, 1915
1.198	Two people standing at edge of pond in bottom of crater on Lassen Peak summit. Photograph by Louisa Mae Loomis PHLV: fig. 52a	1919
1.199	North crater on Lassen Peak summit. Photograph by Louisa Mae Loomis PHLV: fig. 52b	1919