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  1. Logging Near the Woodside Store, c. 1880-1890. - Print, Photographic

    Logging Near the Woodside Store, c. 1880-1890. There is a team of 8 oxen, and a driver with his back to the camera. It is not clear if the oxen are hitched to any sort of load. Some small stumps are visible, there are a few scattered trees, and it is in a flat area, so this does not appear to have been taken in a redwood forest. Two small, unidentifiable structures are in the left background.

    Record Type: Photo

    Logging Near the Woodside Store, c. 1880-1890
  2. Sawpits in the Spanish Red Woods, 1787-1849 - Brown, Alan K.

    Sawpits in the Spanish Red Woods, 1787-1849 by Alan K. Brown. Published by the San Mateo County Historical Association in 1966. Hardbound illustrated book discusses what happened in the "Pulgas redwoods," an area now covered by the towns of Woodside and Portola Valley. Narrative carries through from the explorations of Lt. Col. Juan Bautista de Anza to the bear stories of Jimmy Weeks who spent his last days in the Mayfield "poor house." Autograp...

    Record Type: Library

    Sawpits in the Spanish Red Woods, 1787-1849, 1966
  3. Summit Springs House - Print, Photographic

    Summit Springs House, c. 1850-1880. Horse-drawn wagon with 4 horses. 15 people, none readily identifiable, in foreground and in wagon. Photograph was titled "Huckleberrying Party." Building has three doors and vertical windows on ground floor, 5 square windows on second floor, board and batten walls, and a shake roof with a single metal pipe vent visible at the center of the roof. Summit Springs House was located on the south side of Kings M...

    Record Type: Photo

    Summit Springs House, c. 1850-1880
  4. Woodside Store, 1981 - Painting, Wall

    Woodside Store by Woody Hansen, 1981. Framed mixed media lithograph print is printed, drawn and painted with Windsor & Newton watercolor. Signed and numbered limited edition 5/20. Image depicts a contemporary view of the Woodside Store as seen from Woodside Road at an angle toward Trip Road. Shows side of front building only; second building is obscured by shrubbery. Store is a blue gray color with a wrap-around porch and is surrounded by a w...

    Record Type: Object

    Woodside Store by Woody Hansen, 1981

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