Comprises: 16 photographs and photographic postcards (mostly silver-print and albumen), from small towns in the California Gold Country, including: Hodson and Calaveras, measuring from 3¼x5¼" to 5x8". Postcards captioned in the negative, 6 photos mounted on thick card-stock backing (2 card backings affixed back-to-back to each other with one image being a portrait of an older woman taken in Oakland). Other scenes include: a blacksmith shop and a crew of workers for the Royal Cons Mine, both in Hodson (1890); two men working on a railroad with what appears to be a calibration machine; 5 photo cards of Calaveras including the famed jumping frog competition; the small Post Office in the U.S. in Mountain Ranch, CA; a logging scene near Murphys, CA at Manuel Estate Lumber Co.'s Mills, etc. Circa 1890-1910. * 1 sepia photograph print of an older white American couple on their front porch, 12x8" (including margins), signed "Race" in black crayon, otherwise no other identifications, circa 1910. * 8 sepia-tone photographs somewhere in South America with worker scenes, a village, forest clear-cutting, Native Indian tribes, etc., 4x6". Circa 1900-1910. * And one 3¼x5¼" silver-print photo postcard of an African tribe in full-native dance dress, circa 1910. Together, 26 photographs and photographic postcards.