Transportation

Print,Photographic
1993-104-01
Lagoon Road
This black and white photo of Lagoon Road between Stinson Beach and Bolinas heading north shows a dirt road on the right winding amid trees and shrubs and the shore and water of the lagoon on the left. There is a hazy ridge in the background.... View Full Record
Print,Photographic
1993-105-01
Lagoon Road going south toward Willow Camp.
Black and white photo of the dirt road skirting Bolinas Lagoon (on the right) looking south toward Willow Camp, Stinson Beach ca 1910.... 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
1993-110-01
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
1993-111
Lagoon Road
This black and white photograph is of Lagoon Road, before paving, beyond McKennon's landing toward Bolinas. There is a tree on the left, a cut bank and a sign post on the right.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-125-01
Mt. Tamalpais Scenic R.R.
In this black and white photograph a man, woman and two children stand in front of a railroad engine. They are dressed in late 19th/early 20th century style. The woman wears a dark, long skirted dress or suit and hat and holds a parasol. The mustachi... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-126-01
People, Transportation
This black and white photograph is of 4 people against a rocky outcropping. Two adults are standing, flanking 2 children who are sitting high up on a ledge of the outcropping. The woman {on the left} is holding a parasol. See #1993-125-01.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-127-01
Bolinas Lagoon, Transportation
In this black and white photograph there is a road leading away from the camera with a steep hill and rocky outcroppings rising on the right and shrubs and patches of sand making up a shoreline on the left. This is the Lagoon Road between Stinson Be... 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
print,photographic
1993-136-01
Canoe on Bolinas Lagoon
A black and white photograph of a canoe with three children dressed as Indians. The causeway bridge is shown on upper left hand. See notes... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-145-01
Horse Drawn Buckboard
In this black and white photo several people are in a horse drawn buckboard. The driver is Frank Airey. The man in the white hat is Robbie Dunn. Airey Hotel, now the store, is behind to the right.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-164-01
Horse drawn cart
This black and white photograph is of a horse drawn cart in front of a building (the Airey Hotel). There are four people seated in the cart (Frank Airey on the left, Hoyt Sherman on the right with 2 unidentified people). A wooden box and 2 empty ba... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-170-01
Woman on Horseback
A black and white photograph of a woman on horseback posing on unpaved Highway One near the Airey Hotel. The hotel and few other buildings are behind her and the horse. The woman is probably Liucette Upton, a daughter of James Upton. Date unknown.... 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
1993-178-01
Dairy Truck
Black and white photograph of Stinson Beach Dairy truck on Willow Street (2001). The driver (Joe Avila) is smiling out the window with his right hand on the wheel. He is wearing a white, visored cap and white "milkman's" jacket. The truck is white.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-187-01
Sea Beach Hotel
This black and white photo shows a four story building (the Sea Beach Hotel) with stairs leading up to a long veranda on the second level There is a flagpole with the American flag to the left of the hotel. There is a large group of people (unident... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-192-01
Motor Stage from Sausalito
An original black and white photo of the motorized stage, Sausalito to Stinson Beach. The Stage has Sausalito-Stinson Beach sign in front. Nine passengers are seen, one inside of the stage, eight in front. Written on the back of the original: HG (Har... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-199
School transportation
In this black and white photograph we see a group of people (high school students) walking south on Highway One around 'Big Rock' to the right and with the ocean on the left. See notes. See 2009-108-12... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-205A-01
neighborhoods downtown
One of 3 photographic prints of downtown neighborhoods, Airey's store with 2 Chevron gas pumps in front and Marble apartments on right. Station wagon parked on the side near the steps into the corner store.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-237-01
Elizabeth Airey & Norma in horse carriage
A black and white photograph of Elizabeth Airey & Norma sitting in a horse carriage. Norma (last name unknown) was engaged to Frank Airey but died before the marriage. Both ladies are wearing light-weight long dresses and hats with brims. The carri... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-245A-01
Oak Arched Over Bolinas Road
This original black and white photographic print, by photographer Edgar A. Cohen, shows a dirt road (now Hwy 1) meandering under a twisted oak tree. There are thistles and weeds on the shoulders and hills. See notes.... 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
1993-320
Gravity Train
A black and white photograph showing 2 sets of tracks in the foreground with a car on each track. To the right of the tracks on the hillside is a pathway leading to a tower on the ridge above. A person is starting up the path. The lower portion of... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-348-01
Dipsea Inn
The photo shows the long low structure known as the Dipsea Inn with a horse drawn carriage (4 horses) on the sand in front of the building. There appear to be 4 people in the carriage and 2 people on the veranda of the inn.... 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
1993-541
Schooner
This original black and white photograph shows Bolinas Bay from Bolinas Beach looking southeastward towards Stinson Beach. Slightly left of center is a schooner heading in towards the entrance to Bolinas lagoon.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-660
horse & cart
A horse (head out of frame) and 2-wheeled cart on the hillside. A man is seated in the cart and a woman in a dark hat and long pale coat is standing alongside it with her arm resting on the cart. The right side of the photo has a white lens flare t... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-661
horse & cart with driver
A black horse, facing the camera, is harnessed to a small 2-wheeled wooden cart in which a single woman in a pale coat is seated. They appear to be standing along the lagoon. A stream of water and a hillside can be seen in the background... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-662
horse & cart with male driver
A horse drawn cart in a meadow. A man in a dark sweater and slacks sits in the cart. The horse is facing right but his head is cut off in photo. The view behind looks like the Bolinas Mesa and Lagoon.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-663
wooden cart and couple
A happy couple stand beside their horse-drawn cart (side view of cart, only rear of horse visible). He sits in the cart with his arm resting on the back of the seat while she is standing next to it with her arms behind her back, laughing. The hills... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-682-01
Hwy. 1 south of Stinson Beach
This is a black and white panoramic view of the road to Stinson Beach. Printed in the lower right corner is "On the road to Stinson Beach and Bolinas, Calif." The road curves from the lower left toward the right. There is a large overhanging rock... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-711-01
Roadster
This black and white photo depicts a road with an open top car parked on it facing to the right, pointing downhill. There is a hedge and trees behind it and a gate downhill of it and hills in the background. In the upper right corner part of a hou... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-777-01
Road to Stinson Beach
This black and white photograph shows a dirt road coming in from the right side to the middle of the picture where it disappears from view over a downslope. Beyond it are low hills with Bolinas Bay behind and Bolinas ridge beyond that. There is a r... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-830
Sausalito Stinson Bolinas Bus
B&W photo of a long two-tone jitney-type (Stanley Steamer? early motor stage?) bus parked in front of Mayers grocery store. The bus has painted on the top over its windows "Sausalito-Stinson Beach-Bolinas." A rectangular sign on the roof of the bu... 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
1993-853p-01
Bolinas Road
A photographic print of Bolinas near intersection of Olema- Bolinas Rd and Fairfax-Bolinas Rd by Edgar A. Cohen. Sky with clouds, hills along the Lagoon, Lagoon, Stinson sandspit in middle and background. Two small buildings under the pine trees in f... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-861-01
Outside Road
An original photograph by Edgar A. Cohen of Outside Road (Highway 1), Pacific Ocean and Duxbury Point, Bolinas on horizon. On its back: Photographs (stamped) #1911 Down Coast Road and Duxbury Point (in pencil) Edgar A. Cohen, Alameda, Cal. (stamped)... 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
1993-875-01
Van Osten's Casino
This print is done in sepia tone. It shows a long two-story building with a large sign across the top saying "Van Osten's Casino." On the second floor there are 7 sets of windows, each with a flowerbox beneath it. There is an outside staircase at... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-381-01
Model T and Ducks
This black and white photograph is of an open Model T automobile. It is a side view and the vehicle is parked in front of some buildings. There is what appears to be a long roll of carpeting on top of the car slanting from on top of the windshield... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1994-395-01
Willow Camp Parking Lot
This black and white photograph has turned to blue and white with age. It depicts a circle of cars parked around a grassy plot. One car is parked on the grass itself. They are all old cars possible dating from the early 1900's. See Notes.... 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
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
1994-412-01
The Alice F
This black and white photograph has a greenish cast due to age. It shows a boat moving from left to right on the lagoon. There is a man standing in the prow. Behind him is the engine housing with a pole attached flying an American flag. There i... View Full Record
Print, copy
1995-649-01
Willow Camp Transportation
Xerox copy from slide of a group of travelers standing (plus a couple sitting) in front of the Willow Camp buggy (sign on buggy is slightly visible) boarding site. Ladies are mostly in broad brimmed hats and long dresses. Men are variously and casu... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1996-187-01
'Blitz Buggy'
This black and white photo is of an old roadster automobile. It is a two seater with no top or side windows visible, only a front windshield. There are two young men in it. The car has writing all over it. It says 'Welcome Babes' just above the r... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-277-01
Highway One
This black and white photograph is of a dirt road curving around a mountainside on the right while far below and to the left is the ocean. There is a wood rail fence on the left (oceanside) of the road. In the distance, on the horizon, a point of l... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-310I-01
Man and Automobiles
A man stands in front of a parade of vintage automobiles. He has a black and white dog on a leash. He is wearing black knickers, light shirt, white tie. The driver is visible in the last vehicle in line, which is the one the man is standing beside... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-391-01
Woman on a Trestle
A woman stands with her back to the camera on a wooden trestle spanning what appears to be a river. On the far side is a steep rocky embankment on the top of which is parked two vintage automobiles. There is a person standing by each vehicle lookin... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-392-01
Woman on a Trestle
A woman in a satiny overcoat and matching head scarf or hat stands on a wooden trestle facing the camera. Her hands are resting on two verticle support beams on either side of her. There appears to be water beneath the trestle. On the far side behi... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-393-01
Vintage Auto
Side angle view of a vintage auto. It has a front windshield but is open on the sides. In the upper corner of the windshield on the driver's side is either a spotlight or a horn. There are 5 small rectangular windows in the rear of the auto. The... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-401-01
Mill Valley Train Station
Two sets of train tracks converge at the depot at the far end. Grass grows between and alongside the tracks. There are tall pine trees on either side. A paved street with adjacent sidewalk, separated by wood stiles, runs along the left side of the... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2000-112-01
Girls on a Gravity Car
Three young ladies stand in a gravity car, which is an open railcar that was pulled up the mountain by train from Mill Valley and then coasted back down to Mill Valley or Muir Woods at approx. 12 mph. The ladies/girls are casually dressed in short s... View Full Record
Print, copy
2003-328-01
Downtown Postcard
Xelox photo copy of black and white post card of Stinson Beach downtown in 1940's. It shows commercial development north of Calle del Mar. From the left, a residential looking building (rental?), Real Estate advertizing Cottage, Hillside Cottages in... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2004-105-01
Bon Airey Hotel
Black and white photograph of Airey Hotel taken from south. The building occupies the upper half of the picture. Two men stand looking toward present Highway 1 where a vintage chain-drive flat bed truck with three men is parked. A sign "Hotel" is hu... View Full Record
Print, copy
2005-115-01
Sellmer Aircraft Hanger
A computer printout of a black and white photograph of Mr. Sellmer who built an aircraft in his house at Calle del Ribera in 1940's. He is standing by the door of his second floor door. An attached shed and a ramp going up to the opening of the shed... View Full Record
Print, copy
2005-115-02
Plane in Yard
A computer printout of a black and white photograph of a completed wooden frame of an airplane setting on the yard of the maker, Mr. Sellmer. The yard is near the lagoon near where the Firehouse #2 stands now and Calle del Ribera, wooden platform bui... View Full Record
Print, copy
2005-115-03
Sellmer and Plane
A computer printout of a black and white photograph of completed wooden framing of an aeroplane with the man, Mr,Sellmer, who built it. The plane is setting on the field, more like the lagoon side of beach or field with native grasses. Mr. Sellmer... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2007-110-01
Painted VW Bug
A color photograph of a Volkswagen Beetle painted by Bolinas artists in psychedelic style popular in late 1960's to 70's, the Hippy era and the note (see 2007-110-02) came with it. The colorful car was parked in front of donor, Mary Jones, house. He... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-103-03
Walter Sellmer on Controls 1926
This black and white photograph shows a single winged aeroplane flying in the sky above hills behind the beach. The top of a house and a deck with 4 people looking up to see the plane are visible at the bottom of this photograph. The photograph is mo... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-103-04
Sellmer Aeroplane Factory
This black and white photograph taken 1926 shows Walter Sellmer, the son of inventor J P Sellmer, standing by a propeller of an aeroplane parked in its hanger. Walter Sellmer is wearing a light colored long sleeve shirt with darker colored pants with... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-159-01
Mt. Tamalpais Stage
A B&W photograph of the Stage coach drawn by 4 horses and its 6 passengers. The stage ran between West Point Inn on Mountain Train to Willow Camp and McKinnon's Landing on Bolinas Lagoon. It shows the gravel grade going up Mt.Tamalpais. See notes.... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1993-200-01
High school bus on trip to Mill Valley.
Photograph of the high school bus on a trip to Mill Valley - Tamalpais High School. The photo was taken on Hwy. 1 at Steep Ravine south of Stinson Beach and shows "Big Rock" to the right of the bus. This was the most dangerous curve on the road. (see... 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
1999-278-01
Stinson Beach hillside
Panoramic view of the hills rising above "Stinson Beach" (which is written on the bottom of the photo in white ink) and beyond, including the Lagoon and Bolinas mesa. Houses dot the hillside, and the roadway is just visible in the bottom righthand c... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-279-01
Stinson Beach hillside
Panoramic view of Stinson Beach Village similar to previous photo (1999-278) but from a higher elevation and with more detail noted. Written at the bottom in white ink with arrows identifying the landmarks are: Dispsea Trail, Auto Road and Willow C... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
1999-280-01
Stinson Beach hillside
Similar to previous (1999-279) but slightly zoomed in. A bit of the auto road entering the village is still visible, as are the houses and the Lagoon in the background. Photo is washed out.... View Full Record
Card, Calling
2010-103-05-01
Calling Card Sellmer Aeroplane Factory
A calling card for Sellmer's Sport Planes & Gliders. It reads: GLIDERS, $400 UP PLANES, $1000 UP (next line) SELLMER'S SPORT PLANES & GLIDERS (next line) The wings fold or swing and lay parallel on top of fusilage for garage or street travel (next l... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-103-02
Economy Airplane
This faded, damaged black and white photograph shows a jeep type vehicle with spoked wheels towing an aeroplane on which side panel has painted sign: The Economy Aeroplane, next line illegible, Sellmer, and next few lines illegible. The plane is on d... View Full Record
Print, Photographic
2010-103-01
Sellmer's Sport Planes & Gliders 1926
This damaged black and white photograph shows 7 men standing in front of a biplane landed on the beach. In the background are the hills of Stinson Beach and in between the wings it shows rows of piers leading toward the water and a house. On the back... View Full Record