Steep Ravine

Print,Photographic
1993-110-01
Outside Road (Highway 1) at Steep Ravine where the trail to Sulphur Hot Bath started.
Black and white photograph of unpaved Outside Road (Highway 1), south of Stinson Beach, with embankments rising on both sides. This is close to Steep Ravine where a trail leads down to the beach and the Sulphur Hot Springs.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-124-01
Steep Ravine, Mt. Tamalpais
This black and white photograph shows a fenced trail at the bottom of a steep hillside. There are trees growing in a ravine beside the trail but the hillside is bare of trees with the trail clearly visible going straight up the hill. See notes.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-171-01
'Big Rock' at Steep Ravine
This black and white photograph is of a car and driver on a coastal road. It is an open car, a roadster, and is positioned across the dirt road. The driver (Frank Airey) is looking back over his left shoulder. Behind him on the landward side of th... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-258-01
Steep Ravine, Camp
This picture shows camps on the beach south of Stinson Beach at Steep Ravine in the1930s. These were the homeless "refugees" of the Depression Years. The encampment is made up of tents, tarps and lean-tos. There are a few people on the beach. See n... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-325
Sulphur Baths
A black and white photo of people gathered at the sulphur baths at Steep Ravine. The foreground is rocky and the location of the baths is evident from the steam rising in the background. The photo is dark and details are difficult to distinguish.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-361-01
Cabin of the Painters-Welch's
An original photograph of the cabin of the painters, Thaddeus and Ludmilla Welch. The Welches and their dog are standing in front of the cabin which is located north of Stinson Beach. The cabin is surrounded by trees and vines and looks like it is... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-363-01
Thaddeus Welch at Steep Ravine
A man, Thaddeus Welch, sitting on an outdoor bench holding a cat. To his right are two large landscape paintings leaning against some type of support. In the background is a split rail fence. The background is rustic but the man wears a suit and t... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-364-01
Thaddeus Welch
A black and white photograph of painter, Thaddeus Welch, standing in front of the Steep Ravine cabin he and his wife, Ludmilla, built and lived in. The cabin has long split shingles on the roof and siding, the door has 12 lights and brick fireplace.... View Full Record
print,photographic
1993-428
Sulpher Baths
A photograph of 10 men and women in bathing suits sitting or laying in a bath scooped out of the sand. There are 3 people fully clothed sitting outside the bath. Sand is in the foreground, rocks in the background.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-429-01
Sulpher Baths
It is a photo of ten people (eight adults and two children) in bathing costumes, sitting in a tub constructed of dug out sand. The water (of the sulpher hot springs) is up to the adults' mid chests. There is flat sand behind them and rocks at the b... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-543-01
Rocks and the Sea
An original black and white photograph shows an expanse of wet sand, reflecting clouds and rocks, behind which is a rocky coastline. The rocks in the foreground are at the south end of Stinson Beach and the headland behind is that of lower Steep Ra... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
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
Print, Photographic
1993-836
Sulpher Springs
Small B&W photo shows a rocky hillside formation with a square wooden structure that make it appear as an entrance to a cave.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-841-01
Steep Trail
Original photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen. Shows the steep trail (Dipsea Trail) coming down the mountain from Steep Ravine trail crossing. On the back of photograph: Photograph (stamped) #1887- Steep Trail out of Steep Ravine (penciled) Edgar A.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-848-01
Cove, Rocky Point to Steep Ravine
Original black and white photographic print by Edgar A. Cohen showing the cove between Rocky Point to Steep Ravine, south of Stinson Beach, looking to north. Behind the rocky point hills of Stinson Beach and the coastal ridge of Bolinas, west of th... 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
1993-853-01
Unpaved Coast Road and Steep Ravine Point
An original photograph by Edgar A. Cohen showing newly dressed but unpaved coastal road, taken from near Stinson Beach looking toward San Francisco. The point of Steep Ravine where cabins exist now is visible in background. On its back written in pe... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-396-01
Bridge at Steep Ravine
This black and white photograph shows a road leading away from the camera crossing a bridge and continuing on up a hill. There is a two wheeled buggy driven by a woman wearing a wide brimmed hat moving away from the camera and just starting onto th... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-259-01
Coastline
This black and white photograph looking north, depicts coastal hills on the right running down to a sandy cove bounded by rocks and boulders. Beyond the rocky outcroppings is a larger sandy beach. The cove in the foreground is at the base of Steep... View Full Record
painting
1999OB-101-01
Steep Ravine to SF
This is a Bruno Schneider landscape. From a scrubby hillside (in shades of green, blue and yellow), above the blue waters and outcroppings of the Steep Ravine cove, the view takes in the extensive coastline toward San Francisco in the distance, whic... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-150-01
Stinson Beach from the Air
An aerial photograph in black and white. A photograph of the Stinson Beach coastline to the cottages at the Steep Ravine and the hills behind taken from air. Shows the town of Stinson Beach, Stinson Beach, Highway 1 and the rocky shore below, the cot... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2001-324
Steep Ravine
A black and white photographic print of Steep Ravine cabins and the steep hill to north sloping down to the ocean at a small Red Rock Beach cove where the surf is rushing in. The photograph has April 70 printed on the bottom. On the back of the print... View Full Record
Map
2003A-108-01
Hiking Riding Trail Head
From Stinson Beach to Kirby Cove... View Full Record
Postcard
2005-111-04
Stinson Beach Looking toward Steep Ravine
A black and white photo postcard from the early 1900's. Shows surf and beach looking toward the Steep Ravine. You can see the cut of road along the cliff coming down to the beach.... View Full Record
Book
2011L-106
Last Stage for Bolinas
History of Bolinas and Stinson Beach from 1835 to Golden Gate Recreation Area of today (1973). Stories of lumberjacks, cattlemen, steamer and stagecoach with 42 pictures. Of the total 168 pages, first 94 pages are of the Bolinas history, the rest of... View Full Record
Book
2012L-103
Pastoral California The Art of Thaddeus and Ludmilla Welch
This is a biography of the California painter who resided in Steep Ravine with his painter wife. It includes 22 reproductions of their paintings and 3 photographs: Thaddeus, Ludmilla, and Thaddeus with his friend, John Twachtman. Thaddeus was born in... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-255-01
Gypsy Camp
View from above looks down upon a couple ramshackle structures set among sand and boulders and the edge of the ocean. There are a few clotheslines strung with blankets and two male figures strolling between structures and one on the beach. Inscribe... 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