Mount Tamalpais

Print, Photographic
1993-264-04
Lone Tree
This black and white picture is taken on Mount Tamalpais and shows several trees with one especially large one in the foreground, known as Lone Tree. It marks a trail originally known as Lone Tree Trail. It is now known as the Dipsea Trail.... View Full Record
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1993-324
Hiker Above Stinson Beach
A black and white photo depicting a woman with a hat at her feet, standing facing left on a ridge overlooking grassy hills with roads and structures and more hills in the background.... View Full Record
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1993-330-01
Dipsea Trail
This black and white photo depicts a hillside with a trail winding down beside a tall tree (Lone Tree) and the ocean in the background.... View Full Record
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1993-333-01
Mount Tamalpais
A photograph depicting Mount Tamalpais with the rail road grade (a fire trail) running from the top down to behind the trees in the middle ground. There is a grassy area in the foreground.... View Full Record
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1993-334
Ocean View from Mount Tamalpais
The photo depicts grassland and low shrubs in the foreground, dark hills in the middle ground and the ocean with the California coastline and clouds at the top.... View Full Record
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1993-387-01
Women Hiking on Mt Tam
Photograph shows two women with long skirts and hats hiking on Mt Tamalpais. They are on a trail in a flat open area with the hillside behind them. In the background there is a car on a dirt road and to the right, a structure that looks like a hous... View Full Record
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1993-621D
Snow on Mt. Tamalpais
This black and white photograph shows the figure of a woman (Louise Airey) standing on a snowy road where tire tracks are visible. To the right of the figure is a snow covered hill with four signs, one a wooden fence type sign, two rectangular signs... View Full Record
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1993-669-01
Mt Tam trees
A tall conical tree (Lone Pine) rises up from a dry, sloping hillside. The color photo shows this tree in the background on the left of the photo. A bush in the foreground frames the lower right hand corner. The hillside is a brownish color, the sky... View Full Record
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1993-670-01
Mt Tam hillside
Color photo of a gently sloping hillside with a copse of fir trees growing in a cluster on the left. The hillside is otherwise essentially bare, although a few small bushes can be seen in the distance growing out of crevices. The smooth pale green... View Full Record
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1993-673
snow on Mt. Tam
Automobile tracks veer to the left on a snowy mountain road with pine trees on either side of the road. B&W photo shows snow on the ground and on a few branches alongside the road. Dark pine trees fill the background. Back of photo reads, "Feb. 28... View Full Record
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1994-106
Snow on hilltop
Color print of Mt. Tamalpais hillside, which shows golden brown grass below and snow-capped peaks in the distance above the green treeline.... View Full Record
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1994-107
Snow on hilltop
View of snow-capped hills looks to have been taken from someone's porch or yard. A rooftop is barely visible in the lower left corner, as well as a flowering yellow bush. Green trees and brush climb up the yellowed hill before it is covered with sn... View Full Record
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1994-108
Snow on hillside
Color photo with an artistic view through tree branches to give a bird's eye view of snow on Mt. Tamalpais in the distance. Sky is blue with a few wisps of clouds..... View Full Record
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1999-234-01
Mount Tamalpais
This is a black and white photogragh yellowed with age. It is of a long white building (a railway station). The building has a second floor which juts out and is supported by arches running the length of the structure. Coming from the left are rai... View Full Record
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1999-235-01
Mount Tamalpais
This black and white Photo is of the same building as shown in #1999-234-01 but it is taken from an angle directly facing the long side of the station and from a greater distance. It is clear that there is an arch beneath each pair of windows.... View Full Record
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1999-237-01
Mount Tamalpais
This black and white photograph shows an engine pulling two cars. It is moving toward the arched portion of the station at the far right . Behind the track is a portion of the station that has a first and second floor. There is a flag pole in the... View Full Record
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1999-238-01
Mount Tamalpais
This black and white photograph is another view of a train. Only a portion of the roof and wall of a building are visible at the right. There are two paths leading up the hill behind the train toward a ridge with a small lookout structure.... View Full Record
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1999-239-01
Mount Tamalpais
In this black and white photo the railroad track, cut into a ridge, stretches across the entire picture. At the far right is a portion of the white station building. To the left, at the top of the ridge are two dark buildings. The larger one, clo... View Full Record
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1999-240-01
Mount Tamalpais
This black and white photograph is of a small square structure (an observation post?) atop a rocky tor. The building has horizontal windows across the entire width of the two visible sides. There is a pole to the right of the building with somethin... View Full Record
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1999-246-01
Harper Family Series
Large group of people sitting on the mountainside - possibly watching a play at the Mountain Theater on Mt. Tamalpais.... View Full Record
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1999-305-01
Mount Tamalpais
This black and white photograph depicts hilly terrain covered with brush and trees with a bare hill in the background. 'Stinson Beach view from Rock Spring Hills' is written in white ink at the bottom of the picture.... View Full Record
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1999-306-01
Mount Tamalpais
In this black and white photograph we see a sloping grassy meadow in the foreground with trees (mostly conifers) rising across the entire mid ground. There are hazy mountains visible in the background.... View Full Record
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1999-311B-01
Panorama Hills
This black and white photo was taken somewhere on Mount Tamalpais. The foreground is a level surface beyond which the tops of mountains rise. There is a line of telephone posts and wires at the left of the photograph and trees on the left and right... View Full Record
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1999-400-01
Mt. Tamalpais from Inspiration Point
View of Mt. Tamalpais from Inspiration Point in Mill Valley shows a number of houses interspersed among the trees on the lower mountainside and a clear sky.... View Full Record
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1999-408-01
Flying Y Ranch
The road to the summit on the lower part of the photo passes the Flying Y Ranch. In the distance the large white barn is nestled in front of a large sheltering tree at the base of the hillside On the left there are more trees sloping down through a... View Full Record
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1999-409-01
Windy Gap descent to Hauke Hollow
A rather dark photo of mountain scrub with clefts in the hillside creating a "windy gap." It lies west of the summit. This spot comes after climbing 671 steps from Mill Valley before the Dipsea racers drop down to Muir Wood.... View Full Record
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1999-410-01
Windy Gap, Frank's Valley
Rolling, sloping hills with copses of trees scattered in the clefts the hills as they slope downward. The view is of Windy Gap from the road below looking up. The base of the hills are known as Frank's Valley.... View Full Record
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1999-411-01
Across from Butler's, Joe's Place below
A dense area of trees separates the hillside. In the lower corner there is a house at the edge of the treeline (Joe's place). On the far side of the trees are rolling hills and a trail line, which is Hog's Back going up and over the hills.... View Full Record
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1999-412-01
House at Muir Woods Creek
A large shingled structure with a slant roof sits slightly back from the road on a sloped hillside. There is a dense growth of trees beyond it and below on the left the creek meanders into the trees. The house is surrounded by a wooden fence on the... View Full Record
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1999-414-01
Halfway up Butler's-Hog's Back Trail
Hog's Back Trail skews over Butler's open land in a backward semicircle and it disappears over the hill. Pine trees edge the crest. Telephone poles stretch across the middle of the landscape.... View Full Record
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1999-415-01
Open Trail Along Bulter's- Hogs Back
Looking at the trail which consists of 3 or 4 ruts in the ground as it extends into the distance. There is one nearby telephone pole alongside the trail and a string of more in the distance. The landscape is rather bare except for some clumps of th... View Full Record
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1999-417-01
View of Trail after entering Woods
This is a view off trail after entering the woods. The branches of the trees make a U-shape beyond which is the slope of the mountain and one presumes the ocean or layer of fog,... View Full Record
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1999-418-01
Deer Park from Shade
A dirt path is seen dappled by sunlight running through the branches of trees that arch over it. Trees line the path as far as the eye can see.... View Full Record
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1999-419-01
Woods after Deer Park
Coming out of the shade of the woods, the trail passes through a small sloping open field before it reenters the dense grove of trees on the far side. The trail looks more like a rutted track than a footpath.... View Full Record
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1999-421-01
Trail ahead to highest point on Dipsea Trail
The trail leaves the woods (tree branches cast shadows on the trail) and extends in the distance uphill before descending at the horizon.... View Full Record
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1999-422-01
Looking South on Dipsea Trail from Summit
Panoramic view from the summit looking south over treetops, hills, and ocean in the distance with land masses arising out of the water.... View Full Record
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1999-423-01
First View of Lone Tree
Dipsea Trail etches a path along and over rolling hills before descending over the edge. There is a more distant tree higher on the hill to the right. Wooden fencing stretches along the hill, but separate from the trail, until it disappears over th... View Full Record
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1999-425-01
Trail from Lone Tree-Swoop Hollow
Trail from Lone Tree crosses the land at the base of a sloping hillside, also known as Swoop Hollow. Trees grow out of the crevice of the adjoining hills. First view of breakers in the distance and Bolinas Bay.... View Full Record
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1999-426-01
Trail with Ocean View
Dipsea Trail runs along left edge of photo along an open field with wild grasses. A row of trees runs along the horizon ahead, partially obscuring the view of Bolinas Bay. The western tip of Bolinas is visible.... View Full Record
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1999-427-01
Devil's Slide-Ocean in distance
Trail is marked by ruts in the hillside as it extends overland and across the broad terrain. Area is known as Devil's Slide as the trail in the foreground descends steeply before is rises again on the opposite hillside. There are patchs of trees ex... View Full Record
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1999-428-01
View from Hog's Back
Looking down Hog's Back (although no longer called this). This part of the trail is now known as Devil's Slide. It etches its way over some land which has areas of rock and slopes down on the left and up on the right, where a single tree grows. A... View Full Record
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1999-429-01
Steep Ravine Trail Crossing
Steep Ravine Trail crossing curves narrowly around a brambled, rocky hillside before it enters wooded area ahead.... View Full Record
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1999-430-01
Looking back on Hog's Back
A double dirt track trail runs along the base of and towards a hillside. Slightly higher on the left, separated by weedy growth, is another wider path that has an open swing-type gate across it and wire fencing extending uphill from it. Trees and b... View Full Record
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1999-431-01
Trail ahead from Near Ranch
From the top of the hill, looking north over Bolinas Bay and Lagoon to the peninsula, the trail appears etched into the land below as it disappears between the cleft in the hills. What appears to be a giant boulder rests midway on a hilltop. In the... View Full Record
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1999-432-01
Trail Down to Road
The trail meanders downhill, past an enormous copse of trees (or large rock), to the road (not visible). Some runners dot the trail. Beyond the cleft in the hills forming the horizon one can see Bolinas Bay and peninsula.... View Full Record
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1999-433-01
Further Down Trail
Further down the trail, the dirt track jogs around clumps of shrubbery. A wood and wire fence (with a wooden gate at the top) runs the length of the land as it slopes toward the ocean. Beyond the fencing are various houses scattered about the hills... View Full Record
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1999-434-01
Road Down to Bridge
The road leading down to the bridge (from Big Rock near gate) is wide and looks well-maintained. It passes several houses on the left and many more are spread across the hillside up ahead. A dirt path that is delineated by wood and wire fencing run... View Full Record
Postcard
2000-206-01
View of Mt Tamalpais
Color postcard with a view of Mount Tamalpais framed by trees with houses nestled on a wooded hillside. Postcard reads: "MOUNT TAMALPAIS, CALIFORNIA This is a landmark of Marin County. With an elevation of 2,600 feet and many hiking trails and ro... View Full Record
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2001-187-01
Mountain Home Inn
B&W photographic print of "The Mountain Home Inn on the famed 'Pipe Line Trail' to Mt. Tamalpais." The view is toward the north with the mountain rising and the trail over it clearly visible. The 2-story Inn sits on the hillside sheltered by trees... View Full Record
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2009-104-18
Road on Mount Tamalpais
This black and white photograph is of a road in the foreground sloping downhill toward grassy hills. There is an embankment on the left side of the road that has shrubs and trees growing on it and there are trees growing on the right side of the road... View Full Record