The graduating class of Mendocino High School in 1898. Back row, L to R: Unidentified, Joe Sharp (teacher), Rose Hargreave (teacher), Unidentified, John Brien, Unidentified, Harold Gray, Unidentified. Front row, L to R: Ethel Allen, Dana Gray, Unidentified, Alden Milliken, Edith Switzer, R. Y. Glidden (principal and teacher). Unidentified students appearing in this photo: Emma Hass, Carrie Hoak, Daisy Seavey, Rose Silva, Rose Patton. (A. [...]
Musicians at Morgan Home, 1889 - 1896. Orchestra at Morgan home on Little Lake Street in Mendocino. Henry Frederick is sitting on the porch with a cello. His wife, Lottie Frederick, is standing behind him. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 16, 1886 - Henry Louis Frederick married Lottie E. Perry at her parents’ home in Mendocino. “The young couple have launched out [...]
View of businesses on the north side of Main Street in Mendocino, looking west, c. 1881. Identified buildings are from left to right: J. D. Murray Drug Store; Chung Kow Wash House on northwest corner of Kasten and Main Streets; Jarvis and Nichols Mercantile; W. T. Wilson's Oyster Saloon and Restaurant; John A. Barry with his children in front of his barbershop and home; Marks [...]
Gathering of the Presbyterian Missionary Society held at the home of Mrs. Evangeline Reep, June 1923. Pictured left to right: Mrs. Reep, Mrs. Stella West, Mrs. Kate Morgan, Mrs. Eliza Grindle, Olive Brown, Nellie Hitchen, Mrs. Lizzie Law, Vernie Jamison Brown. Children: Harold Reep, Merna Brown, Allen Law, Grace Maxwell, Bertha Reep. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 14, 1920 - Stella West [...]
There are tales, harrowing stories, which have been told and re-told for 167 years about the ship that was sucked into the blow hole in Mendocino Bay. Are they true? The opening to the Mendocino Bay blow hole as seen from The Point on the Mendocino Headlands. (Photo by Carol Dominy) Sidebar – we are not talking about the blow hole with a fence [...]
Full length portrait of Charles Denslow Ford on his wedding day, November 13, 1882. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 12, 1916 - Charles Denslow Ford died at Adler’s Sanitarium in San Francisco. He had been suffering from paralysis for about four months and was undergoing treatment at the time of his death. Born in Mendocino in 1858, Charles was the son of [...]
A view of the John Pete Lindberg property on the east side of Mendocino, looking northwest. The house stood on a hill above a steep ravine called LeBallister Gulch, visible in the photograph to the left of the house. Just above that, you can see the light-colored rows of headstones in Evergreen Cemetery. J. P. Lindberg was an early-day (c. 1874-1884) harness and saddle maker with [...]
Color polaroid snapshot of Miles Paoli and a friend sitting on a timber bench in front of a wooden board fence, 1978-1980. (Gift of Dolly Efishoff, Miles Paoli Collection, Kelley House Photographs) “Between the old Paoli Hotel and his home [next door to the west], Miles [Paoli] had somehow maneuvered a large squared-off timber, setting it as a bench in front of his fence. [...]
Apple Shed and MacCallum-Kelley Property, 1894 - 1908. The apple shed on the MacCallum house property, looking north from Albion Street directly opposite the Kelley House. A Mendocino-style picket fence runs along the road. Other buildings visible in this image include, left to right: the MacCallum house water tower, the Kelley Baptist Church, the tall Hegenmeyer water tower, and the back porch of Rose McGuire's [...]
Sunday School Picnic at Big Hill, 1931. Photograph of women attending the Presbyterian Church's Sunday School picnic at Big Hill. Back row: Susie Walbridge, Molly Valentine, Laura Lammers, Catherine Swanson, ? Silver, ? Hamblin. Front row: ? Hanna, Vernice Brown, Mary Nichols. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 8, 1947 - Mrs. Mary Nichols, cousin of Mendocino Beacon editor and proprietor Auggie Heeser, [...]