Liz' favorite images of the Fallbrook area

The Fallbrook area defined here is that encompassed by the High School District. This could be a resource file for mural subject matter and design.

• The Land (landmarks which guided travelers), and Wildlife
  • A very creative artist could do something which would portray geological forces which created our mountains full of gems (our mines sent tourmalines to the Empress of China in the 1890's, and are known internationally)
  • Creeks and rivers (word descriptions in Van Dyke)
  • Gunn's photos of 1880's
  • Views of Morro Hill (neck of an old volcano
  • Views of Red Mountain
  • Various hot springs (De Luz, Stewart Canyon, Agua Tibia)
  • Species which are no longer here (condor, deer, bear, trout, etc.)
  • (Could also do recreations of extinct species - from bones recovered, like mammoth, sloth, etc. I can supply references.)
  • Existing species

• Indian Life
  • Need some to illustrate descriptions of pre-Spanish life in our area (showing men doing pictographs and sand paintings, sailing, women weaving and making baskets
  • Alexander Forbes drawing, 1830's
  • Frenzeny drawings, 1877 (for Harper's Weekly
  • romantic
  • Helen Hunt Jackson , 1880's
  • romantic
  • Gunn photos, 1880's
  • Design:
    • basketry book, Riverside Museum
    • carvings: San Diego Museum displays
    • Palomar College, SDSU, Museum of Man have local archeological findings

• San Luis Rey Mission and territory (Indian, Spanish, and Mexican times)
  • Duhaut-Cilly, drawing, 1830
  • Powell's sketches, 1850
  • Frenzeny drawings, 1877 (for Harper's Weekly
  • romantic
  • Helen Hunt Jackson , 1880's
  • romantic
  • Photos and paintings in Sunset book on Missions, Engelhardt's book on missions (beginnings through 1920's)

• Homes and farms
  • Santa Margarita ranch house, 1850's
  • Elliott's history, 1883; drawings
  • Gunn's photos, 1880's
  • Fenyes paintings, 1920's (romantic)
  • William Heath Davis' book illustrations
  • Photographs, rural homes and ranches,1890's to 1930's

• Buildings
  • Photos of churches, hotels, schools, businesses, town scenes

• Travel
  • Rivers, trails, railroads, roads, and what traveled on and beside them, including horse and buggy, trains, early automobiles

• Details of design elements
  • Artistic motifs, letterheads, interiors, furnishings, clothing

• Miscellaneous ideas

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Last update: 12 August 1998.