My image, 2025
Roger Sturtevant, 1936, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
Firehouse #2, Nevada City, CA
My image, 2025
Roger Sturtevant, 1936, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
Twin City Clothing CO, Nevada City, CA
My image, 2025
Robert E. Chapman, 1900, Chapman Collection, Nevada City, CA
Nevada Theater, Nevada City, CA
My image, 2025
Jervie Henry Eastman, 1946 Eastman’s Originals Collection, UC Davis Library
National Hotel, Nevada City, CA
My Process
To recreate these images as accurately as possible, I first printed out the originals on transparent cyanotype paper. Then, once on location, I could look through the paper and line up what I saw with the real buildings, in order to triangulate roughly where each original photo was taken.
