Bolinas Bay and Bolinas Lagoon

Print, Photographic
1993-101-01
Tidal gate on causeway to Dipsea Inn
Black and white photo of tidal gate on causeway to Dipsea Inn. Shows hills and Hwy. 1 at south end of Lagoon.... View Full Record
Print,Photographic
1993-102-01
McKennon's Landing
On the left of this black and white photo is a low shoreline jutting out into a lagoon. There are some large trees on it and a pier with boats tied at the end. Buildings can be seen across the water from the pier. See notes.... View Full Record
Print,Photographic
1993-103-01
Cows at McKennon's Landing
Cows at the McKinnon's Landing. Two cows stand by the landing. Lagoon Rd, north of Stinson Beach, Dipsea Inn visible on the sandspit. Black and white photo.... View Full Record
Print,Photographic
1993-108-01
Boat to Bolinas 1912
Black and white photo of the boat to Bolinas 1912. There are 2 prints in this accession. The people on the boat are L-R sitting: Edith Dunn, ( possibly) Margaret McKennon, Joseph Dunn, Eva Dunn; standing: Bill McKinnon.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-132-01
Boat on the Bolinas Lagoon
Black and white photograph of McKennon's' skiff floating on the shore of Bolinas Lagoon with Gertrude (Didi) Dunn, in a brimmed hat, sitting inside of boat. The boat is anchored at the stern; the prow is aground on the shore. Shows the end of sand... View Full Record
postcard
1993-190-01
Seadrift 1955
Color aerial photograph of Seadrift development made into postcards. There are 2 of the same postcards. The caption on the back of each postcard reads, "Sea-Drift, located in Marin County, just forty minutes from downtown San Francisco, on the natur... View Full Record
Postcard
1993-194
Panoramas, Bolinas Bay
This color photograph, a panoramic view of Bolinas Bay from south of Stinson Beach looking north past the bay and Bolinas Lagoon toward Bolinas itself, includes most of the town of Stinson Beach.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-216-01
SB Panorama 1951
This original black and white photograph is a panoramic view of Stinson Beach, taken in 1951, from White Gate Ranch, or above existing houses of Panoramic Hwy. It shows the sweep of sandy shore of Bolinas Bay on the left with Bolinas Lagoon on the ri... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-218-01
Stinson Beach 1948 panorama
Westerly overview from mountain side with Stinson Beach below, Bolinas and Duxbury Reef stretching into the distance. Downtown identifiable buildings are Airey's Store and some houses in the Highlands. Buildings in present park, Sea Downs, Dipsea Lod... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-219-01
Panorama of Stinson Beach Patios & Sandspit
Black and white photograph of panoramic view of Stinson Beach showing the Patios, Sandspit (Seadrift) and Bolinas Bay. It also shows the causeway to the sandspit. There are houses on the Patios and the first house on the spit-Jeffers. There are tre... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-243-01
Ferryman's Shack, Sandspit
This original, black and white photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen shows the end of the sandspit with the ferryboat shack. This picture is taken from Bolinas, across the channel. The water in the foreground is the channel. The mid-ground water, beh... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-245D-01
Road to Bolinas
This black and white photographic print of the unpaved road to Bolinas in the early 1900s shows the Bolinas Lagoon and the mesa in distance. There is an oak tree on the lagoon side shoulder as well as trees on the hillside to the right.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-260-01
White Gate Ranch
This black and white photographic print, by Edgar A. Cohen, is of White Gate Ranch as it was in 1904. Taken from above the ranch, it shows ranch fences and buildings, the ranch road leading toward the lower Highland area, Stinson Beach beach, the san... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-265-01
Continuing filling for Dipsea Rd. and Seadrift Lagoon
A black and white photograph of the area of Bolinas Lagoon in the process of being filled in in order to create Dipsea Rd. and the Seadrift Lagoon. Part of the causeway between Highway 1 and Seadrift is visible .... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-267-01
Willow Camp Lake
An original photographic print in black and white by Edgar A. Cohen. It shows Willow Camp Lake (Poison Lake) in almost its entirety from above--probably from Highway 1 (Outside Road)-- surrounded by willows, dunes and sandy beach to left with Bolina... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-296
Dipsea Lodge
A view of Bolinas Bay (Stinson) Beach looking out from the dunes toward the ocean surf. On the right is a one-story building (Dipsea Lodge; built in 1920 and razed in 1950) nestled in the dunes. There are a couple of people standing on the sand in... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-312-01
Schooner JENNY GRIFFIN
A sepia photograph of a 2-masted schooner drawn up at the Bolinas wharf at Wharf Road.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-331-01
Bolinas Bay
A black and white panoramic view of the coastline of Bolinas bay showing the town of Bolinas in the upper right hand corner beyond the end of the sand spit and the town of Stinson Beach in the center foreground with the foothills of Mount Tamalpais i... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-350-01
Camping on Stinson Beach
This is a photo of a tent encampment on Stinson Beach, taken from above. The foreground shows a large rock and some vegetation. At midground, 8 unpaved roads divide the campground with tents set up in straight rows plus several small structures.... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-377-01
Boats on Bolinas Lagoon
This is a photo of 2 small boats on Bolinas Lagoon with 6 unidentified people. The larger boat with 5 people sits a few yards off the sandy beach, its image reflected in the water. A man stands at the far left, holding on to the smaller boat. The... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-378-01
On Bolinas Bay
This is a photo of Bolinas Bay taken from the water, looking towards the land. To the right is a wooden pier, with a flagpole at the end. A boat, the Alice F., is at the end of the pier in the water. To the left of it is a house (McKinnon's?), hil... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-384-01
Belvedere Ranch
An original photograph by Edgar A. Cohen. Photograph was taken from sandspit across from the lagoon. The Belvedere Ranch in center (presently Stinson gulch, south of Stinson Beach School, where SBCWater District barn is located), the hills rising in... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-412-01
Pilings
A photograph looking across the Bolinas Lagoon from Highway 1 towards Bolinas. There are remnants of pilings at Mc Kinnon's Landing going out into the water.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-418-01
Panoramas, Bolinas Bay
This is an aerial panoramic view of Bolinas Bay and Stinson Beach. At the top of the picture can be seen the entrance to Bolinas Lagoon. The sandspit is seen but there are no structures on it. In the middle ground there are some houses in the town... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-548
Bolinas Bay and Lagoon
This original black and white photograph, taken from a hillside above Stinson Beach, shows the town of Stinson Beach in the middle ground of the picture with Bolinas Bay on the left and Bolinas Lagoon in the right upper quadrant with Bolinas Penninsu... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-554
White Gate Ranch
This black and white original photograph shows White Gate Ranch in the foreground and Bolinas Bay in the background. There is a barn in the left hand corner and behind it can be seen the roof of another barn. There are smaller buildings to the righ... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-561
White Gate Ranch
This black and white original photographic print shows Panoramic Highway in the right foreground, some buildings and fences of White Gate Ranch in the left foreground, Bolinas Bay in the left middleground and the town of Stinson Beach in the right mi... View Full Record
Postcard
1993-676-01
Beach on Bolinas Bay
This sepia postcard depicts the sweep of the bay from a hillside to the southeast of Stinson Beach. In the right foreground there are two building roofs, one unfinished. Down on the beach on the left is a building with the painted sign of Van Osten... View Full Record
Postcard
1993-677-01
View from Bolinas
This sepia postcard is a view from Bolinas across the bay to Stinson Beach. A few structures can be seen in the hills and along the beach. Highway 1 is visible coming down to Stinson Beach from the right. 'Stinson Beach from Bolinas, Calif.' is wr... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-770P-01
Stinson Beach from Bolinas
A black and white photographic print of a view of the Bolinas Bay, Stinson Beach, and the hills behind taken from the Little Mesa of Bolinas. It was taken very clear day probably after a rain in early spring, it shows the Bolinas Channel and the tip... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-850-01
Sand Spit from Bolinas
An original black and white photograph by Edgar A. Cohen, of Sand Spit taken from Bolinas. On the sand spit stands a boatman's shack and a tall oat house. Dipsea Inn is in far distance. The lagoon curves around the spit beneath hills and sky with i... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-852-01
Coast Line South, Red Rock Beach
An original black and white photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen with his signature at lower left corner in white letters. It shows Red Rock Beach, south end of Stinson Beach past "Red Rocks." Steep Ravine point visible to south with the ocean expan... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-854-01
Stinson Beach Panorama
An original photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen with his signature in white at lower left corner. It shows a panoramic view of Stinson Beach from above, near Panoramic Highway. We see sky, Bolinas, wisp of fog over Bolinas, and Stinson Beach in midd... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-858-01
Bolinas Lagoon from Bolinas
An original photograph taken by Edgar A. Cohen on 6/12/1903 of Bolinas Lagoon environs with hills rising along the lagoon. Junction of Olema-Bolinas Road and Fairfax-Bolinas Road with two ranch houses under trees ( probably, Steel Ranch) in foregrou... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-863-01
A Baggy on Sandspit
A 8x10 copy of the original photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen, signed in black on lower left. A horse and buggy with a lady driver in hat heading off to the right. Horse & buggy tracks show her path that has passed dunes covered with grass with th... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-114
Boliinas Bay Panorama
This is a black and white panoramic view of Bolinas Bay, apparently taken from the air. In the foreground are the hills sloping down to the beach with buildings clustered in the lower hills and along the beach above the water line. In the upper le... View Full Record
Postcard
1994-129-01
Stinson Beach Overlook
A large color postcard shows Stinson Beach California and is so identified on the back with the zip code and "Photograph: Aero Photo Sausalito for Proctor Jones". The producer is Mirro-Krone (R)Card by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. San Bruno, Calif. 94066.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-319-01
Beach View
This black and white photograph is a view of the south end of the beach from the cliff above. The foreground is shrubby and shows a path leading from right to left where it drops out of sight . The beach surrounded by boulders is directly below the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-400
Panorama with horse & buggy
Panoramic view of Bolinas Bay taken near White Gate Ranch. Standing on the hillside on the near side of a wood and wire fence is a woman (left side of photo) in dark dress and hat looking towards a horse and open buggy standing opposite her on the r... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-415-01
Bolinas Lagoon Overview
Overview of Bolinas Lagoon and Seadrift Sandspit. There is a road down the middle of the sandspit and 2 or 3 structures visible from the air. On the far side is the broad and basically barren Bolinas Mesa, although trees and some structures are visib... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1995-531-01
Birds in flight over ocean
Color photo showing a multitude of birds, mainly seagulls, standing in the surf and flying over the ocean. There is a blue-ish layer of fog over the ocean, the top of which is white, and thin clouds wafting through the upper sky.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1995-533-01
Birds in flight
Color photo of a myriad of birds in flight over Bolinas Lagoon. Most of them are white with black or golden in color. They could be gulls and/or pelicans.... View Full Record
Postcard
1996-163-01
Bolinas Bay Panorama 1920s
Sepia-toned postcard of an overview of Willow Camp (back of postcard, written in ink, is the name Peggy Pepper and Willow Camp). Mostly it is a scattering of trees and brush and open flat space with the surf in the background. There are structures... View Full Record
Postcard
1996-164-01
View from Beach circa 1910
Sepia toned postcard circa 1910 shows the Stinson Beach hillside from the beach. The white sand in the foreground is separated from the residences on the hillside by a line of wooden posts. Two or three houses appear to be directly on the beach, mos... View Full Record
Postcard
1997-109-01
Seadrift Panorama
Color postcard of "SEA DRIFT" A sand spit on the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco, extending from Stinson Beach, Marin County, California. Clouds cover the western slopes of Mt. Tamalpais." Also written on the back in ink: "I bought this card.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-110-01
Seadrift Panorama
This black and white photograph is a panoramic view of the Stinson Beach sandspit looking south from the Bolinas side of the lagoon entrance. The Bolinas lagoon takes up the left side of the photo with the sandspit in the right third of the picture... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-124-01
Seagulls
Color photo of a flock of seagulls landing in the "dunes just south of old Seadowns, circa 1950." Six seagulls are in flight over the dune/dune grass; two are on the sand. Sky is blue with a hint of a fog bank offshore. Surf is gentle.... View Full Record
postcard
1998-115-01
On the Pacific
B&W postcard on which is written in white ink "Stinson Beach, On The Pacific" on the bottom and K-65 in the righthand corner. The back of the postcard attributes it as the property of Mary A. Jones. The photo is a panoramic view from the hillside... View Full Record
Postcard
1998-119
Stinson Beach Panorama
B&W postcard of Stinson Beach looking down from the hillside with the beach/ocean in the distance. A row of flowers (daisies) stretches lengthwise across the hillside where the unknown photographer stands facing south.... View Full Record
Print, copy
1998-131
Public Beach after Storm
Beach erosion on the public portion of Stinson Beach looking north. The tide is out leaving a foot or two of drop-off in the sand on the southern side of the lifeguard tower. The long view stretches to the residential part of the beach before sea mi... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-256-01
Gypsy Camp
Looking up at "Gypsy Camp" from lower on the beach. It shows that the shacks are built on stilts above the boulders and rocks.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-288-01
Bolinas Lagoon
A black and white photo of Bolinas Lagoon at, or near, McKinnon's Landing, described as "Stinson Beach, Lagoon & McKinnon's Place" on lower right hand corner in white letters: The McKinnon's pier to the center- right and a boat that looks like the... View Full Record
painting
1999OB-100-01
Stinson Beach
Panorama of Stinson Beach/Bolinas Bay. Green, blue, gold and brown hillside slopes down toward a sandy beach, although there are some large boulders extending into the ocean at the base in the foreground. Whitecaps on the ocean where they near the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-159-01
South End of Stinson Beach
This black and white photograph shows and expanse of sandy shore behind which is a rocky point.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-160-01
Kent Fill for Inner Lagoon
Overhead panoramic photo of Seadrift in the making with the Bolinas Ridge in the background. Back of photo reads: Feb 1961 - [Intermediate] Kent Fill For Dipsea Rd, Inner Lagoon. We see a long curving strip of land/sand dotted with a series of pol... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-332
Pier with Blind
A black and white photographic print of Bolinas Lagoon near present Volunteer Canyon of Audubon Canyon Ranch. It shows a pier with a gate closer to the shore and fenced in area, probably a duck blind, at the lagoon end. The photograph has April 70 p... View Full Record
Postcard
2005-101-01
Stinson Beach / Bolinas Lagoon
Aerial photograph postcard of Stinson Beach and Bolinas Lagoon from the tip of Bolinas Mesa to San Francisco. The hills behind the Beach and Marin Headland are also shown. White thunder clouds float on top of all. It reads on the back; Stinson Beach... View Full Record
Documents
2017A-104-01
SB Geology of Earthquake
This is a page of possibly a magazine or a book mounted on a black card board mat 9x12 in size. The content talks about the geologic formation along the road north of Stinson Beach developed by San Andreas fault sone. In conclusion, it states Stinson... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1997-107
Bolinas Lagoon
Turn of the century photo of Bolinas Lagoon, identified on the back as Bay Road, 1899. Also identified but difficult to see is Capt. P. Bourne's Powerboat, "Fearless." Mostly what is visible is rocky side of Bolinas Lagoon waterway and tree-covered... View Full Record
Postcard
2010-06-03
The Lagoon. Bolinas, Calif.
An enlarged Xerox print of a black and white postcard showing The Mouth of Lagoon, sandspit, the arc of Stinson Beach and the hills behind taken from the Little Mesa of Bolinas. The spit is devoid of any development and the line of the Highway One ca... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2012-111-03
Bolinas Bay
In this color photo of Bolinas Bay the foreground is dark and the view is framed by silhouettes of branches. The sweep of the bay, the lagoon and Bolinas Ridge are beyond. The horizon is very clear and the sky is a deep blue with interesting cloud fo... View Full Record
History, General
2015A-114-01
Bolinas Lagoon 1834-2015 Events that shaped the restoration effort
This is a fine history of Bolinas Lagoon prepared by Kate Bimrose of Gulf of Fallarones National Marin Sanctuary with helps of Elia Haworth of Bolinas Museum and its archive, and others. The 30 pages document in 11 x17 sheets traces the events; natur... View Full Record