Page 3 of 8 Theminers in the raw new towns were delighted to pay in gold dust forpanorama photos of those towns and themselves. A. C. accomplishedthis by taking a canoe from the headwaters of the Yukon to the ocean,photographing this hive of human activity along the way whileenjoying the wilderness and living off the land. Dr. Harlin hadstaying in Anchorage to fine tune his chess playing. A. C. developedthe photos in the portable dark room he installed in hiscanoe. In1900, after two years of adventures that included ship wrecks andgaping chasms in errant glaciers, he spent time photographingWashington State and then headed south to Los Angeles. His brotherErnest was now a practicing physician in Los Angeles. A. C. helpedbuild and install the solar heating system in the new Pillsbury homethat stood at the corner of what is now Hollywood Blvd and North LasPalmas. Then, Hollywoodland was a residential neighborhood withlarge homes surrounded by large properties. Drs. Harriet and Harlinhad settled in, attending the First Congregationalist Church in LosAngeles and visiting with family in Redlands and Tahoe. Theautomobile had become a family fixture in 1900 when Dr. Ernestpurchased his first Locomobile. Duringthis period A. C. photographed much of the South West from thedeserts to the Grand Canyon, to Catalina. By 1900 he had a catalogof images that included 1000 panoramas. In1903 A. C. headed back to San Francisco to a job on the SanFrancisco Examiner as a photojournalist. He quit that job to foundthe Pillsbury Picture Company. They toasted the event in orangejuice because the family was White Feather, meaning that theysupported voluntary abstinence from alcohol. Onthe morning of April 18, 1906 A. C. grabbed his camera before he hitthe floor. Moments later he had possessed himself of a graaflaxcamera and his panorama. He was on his way to the City. Inthe aftermath of the Quake A. C. married, took a honeymoon thatincluded a tour of all of California, and purchased, for the secondtime, a studio in Yosemite. His first bride, a fellow student atStanford, had left him because he had purchased a studio in Yosemitewith Julius Boysen in 1897, two years after his first visit toYosemite by bicycle from San Francisco. He sold his share to Boysenand, 9/26/2005 , Tags: A.C. PILLSBURY_006.PDF