BV.Album.Comp 10/30/09 3:12 PM Page 1 The Bear Valley Irrigation Company Album Southern California Landscape Photographs by Herve Friend, 1891 1 Michael Dawson Gallery | Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. BV.Album.Comp 10/30/09 3:12 PM Page 2 Front Cover: Reflections from nature, Bear Valley Reservoir. Title Page Vignette: Detail from Plate 7. 2 Back Cover: Bear Valley Reservoir from Gilner’s Point. BV.Album.Comp 10/30/09 3:12 PM Page 1 The Bear Valley Irrigation Company Album Southern California Landscape Photographs by Herve Friend, 1891 Michael Dawson Gallery Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. 535 North Larchmont Boulevard Post Office Box 40447 Los Angeles, California 90004 San Francisco, California 94140 Tel: (323) 469-2186 Fax: (323) 469-9553 Tel: (415) 626-2677 Fax: (415) 552-4160 www.michaeldawsongallery.com E-mail:
[email protected] BV.Album.Comp 10/30/09 3:12 PM Page 2 Fig. 1 Redlands from Smiley Hill. 2 BV.Album.Comp 10/30/09 3:12 PM Page 3 Convinced of their right, perhaps even their duty, ization. Nevertheless, Herve Friend’s remarkable Introduction to move ever westward and occupy the lands of the photographs of the Bear Valley reservoir, the early North American continent, European and American settlement in Redlands and other dramatic changes settlers began arriving in California in the early to the arid San Bernardino Valley are the only nineteenth century, displacing the Native Americans known mammoth plate photographs to be made in and even some of the Hispanic “Californios” who Southern California during the last decade of the had displaced the Native Americans before them.