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Panoramas
Panoramas enlarge the scope of what photography. Earlier technologies had attempted to do this by artfully taking a series of images and then pasting them together. Pillsbury's approach was to take one photo using a camera he invented as his senior project while still at Stanford in 1897. The camera was made of wood and the film was exposed as a slit was moved along the semi-circle.
Later, Pillsbury refined this camera, which could also take vertical panoramas.
The first series of panoramas were taken in the Yukon. Many more, not accounted for in the catalog as we have it today, were taken in Southern California of towns and views which were then popular. These were also numbered but since the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire begin at 100 we believe his numbering system underwent changes, these earlier panoramas includes in those earlier systems. Research continues. Sign up to receive updates for the Catalogs at Contact. Write Catalog in the message box.
These photos blow up without degradation of the image to 22 feet. This example has a line down the middle which is not present in the negatives we use for reproduction.
No. 100 The Burning of San Francisco, April 18, view from the Merchant's Exchange Blvd.
No. 101 The Burning of San Francisco, April 18, [19]06, view from St. Francis Hotel.
No. 102 Panorama The Burning of San Francisco, April 18, view from St. Francis Hotel.
No. 231 – Panorama - Panorama from ferry building.
C 1906.
No. 500 – Panorama - Fifth Symphony Concert, Greek Theatre, May 15, '06.
1906 May 15.
No. 501 Panorama - Sixth Symphony Concert, Greek Theatre.
Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906.
No. 1003 Panorama – Panorama in the Mariposa Big Tree Grove
Copyright 1906 by Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 1003
No. 1004 - Panorama - Charter Day at the Greek Theatre, Roosevelt Speaking
No. 1030 – Panorama - Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe.
c1906.
No. 1037 – Panorama - Panorama of Emerald Bay & Lake Tahoe.
c1906.
No. 1039 – Panorama - Lake Tahoe from Tahoe Point.
c1906.
Fallen Leaf Lake & Mt. Tallac.
Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; November 7, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:43052.
No. 1039.
No. 1040 - Panorama - Junipers on Mt. Tallac trail, & panorama towards Desolation Valley.
c1906.
No. 1048 – Panorama - Lake Tahoe from Cave Rock.
c1906.
No. 1049 – Panorama - Panorama of Lake Taho [sic] from Cave Rock.
c1906.
No. 1244 – Panorama - Panorama of Oakland from the Court House.
c1907.
No. 1254 – Panorama - Susie Lake, near Glen Alpine.
c1906.
No. 1255 – Panorama - Panorama of Oakland from the Court House.
c1907.
No. 1259 – Panorama - University of California buildings, Berkeley, Cal..
c1907.
No. 1307 – Panorama - Panorama of Bellingham, Washington.
c1907.
No. 1401 Panorama - The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove Big Trees Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Company
No. 1451 Panorama - Point Lobos Monterey Copyrighted 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co.
No. 1518 – Panorama - Yosemite Valley from Columbia Rock.
c1908.
No. 1523 – Panorama - Green Lake near Seattle, Wash..
c1907.
No. 3010 – Panorama - Nevada Falls
c1907.
No. 3500 Panorama - Redlands from Smiley Heights.
c1908.
No.3510 Panorama - "In the Canyon of a Thousand Palms" c. 1907
No. 3506 – Panorama - Arrowhead Hot Springs.
c1907.
No. 3507 – Panorama - Arrowhead Hot Springs.
c1907.
No. 3508 – Panorama - Riverside from Mt. Rubidoux.
c1907.
No. 3509 – Panorama - San Juan Capistrano Mission.
c1907.
No. 3513 Panorama - Santa Barbara
c1908.
Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; January 6, 1908.
No. 3514 – Panorama - San Juan Capistrano Mission after a painting by Chris Jorgensen.
c1908.
No. 3543 – Panorama - The plunge, Santa Cruz.
c1908.
