Swanlund-Baker Photograph Collection

The Swanlund-Baker Collection depicts a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the early twentieth century. Lumber industry, tanbark industry, flower nurseries, city and village street scenes, schools, portraits, parks, ships, shipbuilding, shipwrecks, and rivers are the featured subjects of this collection. The primary photographer represented is Ray Jerome Baker who lived in Humboldt County from 1904-1910.

The finding aid for the Swanlund-Baker Photograph Collection is available both online and in the Humboldt Room (F 868 H8 S848 HumCo).