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Page 152. One of the earliest known lithographic views of Old Town San
Diego (1846) appeared in William H. Emory's Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to
San Diego in California
Page 154. The so-called Couts drawing of "Mission San Diego" was
actually first completed by an itinerant artist, H.M.T. Powell, who visited San
Diego in 1849-1850. The Powell sketch was later copied and refined by other
artists.
Page 155. A "Bird's Eye View of Coronado Beach, San Diego Bay, and the City of San
Diego in the Distance" by E. S. Moore.
Page 156-157. A. E. Mathews' lithograph view of San Diego as "The Terminus of the Texas
Pacific Railway" was judged to be "exceedingly defective" by contemporaries. The
mountain ranges appeared to be too close to the city "crowding San Diego into
the bay."
Page 158-159. H. C. Ford's watercolor of Mission San Fernando. Ford was a landscape
painter originally from New York and Chicago who settled in Santa
Barbara in 1875. He completed a series of etchings of the California missions
which were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Page 160-161. A California artist from Santa Cruz, Frank L. Heath, spent the winter
of 1887 in San Diego "making sketches
of the scenery." His view of Mission Valley (above) is almost identical to a
photograph of the valley by C. W. Judd (right) taken in the late 1880's.
Page 164-165. A copy of W. Thurston Black's portrait of "City Father" Alonzo Horton (above right)
is shown here hanging in the parlor of San Diego's Florence Hotel in a photograph by Joseph C. Parker probably taken around the late 1880's or mid 1890's. The original portrait by Black is seen (above left) in its frame. One readily distinguishable difference between the two paintings is the longer length of Father Horton's watch chain in the copy portrait.
Page 167. A portrait of Phoebe Farnham by Ammi Merchant Farnham is in the collections of the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Farnham was an artist of national standing who arrived in San
Diego during the late nineteenth century.
Page 168. "Charles A. Fries," by Jean Rittenhouse. Later called the dean of San Diego painters, Fries came to the city in 1898 and stayed on to produce some of
his better known works.
