camp of the Bear Valley Ranch in the late 1940s.
West Marin Portraiture
Photography by Seth Wood, 1940s to 1950s
Text by Dewey Livingston
Photographs Courtesy of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History, Inverness
Seth Wood was a man of many talents. His excellent photography endures through the preservation of more than 100 original negatives at the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History in Inverness. Wood lived in the San Geronimo Valley in the 1940s and 1950s while operating a small commercial photography studio. His portrait subjects included family groups, business people, ranchers, and people in the street. He also photographed landscapes and buildings, and he enjoyed shooting local scenes from a small plane. Wood’s portraiture is testament to his easy rapport with the plain people under his lens.
Federico (Fred) Genazzi, a Swiss immigrant who operated a successful dairy ranch at Point Reyes Station, often entertained his friends with music on his accordion.
An unidentified couple and their dog in front of the Western Saloon in Point Reyes Station around 1950.
Proud cattle rancher Arnold Stuckey with his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law at the Lake Ranch north of Bolinas around 1950.
Oliver “Bud” Hendren visits with the waitress at the Hillside Cafe, the site of today’s Marin Sun Farms in Point Reyes Station.
Contributors
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- Cover
- Tom Killion Bolinas Ridge Sunset
- Prose
- Catherine David Amateurs Are First-Rate Lovers
- Reynold Junker Yesterday, Perhaps
- Jessica O’Dwyer Meeting Ana
- Agustina Martinez Life in Mexico
- Jan Harper Haines Hootlani!
- Agnes Wolohan Smuda von Burkleo Fall
- Vivian Olds Marin Memoirs
- Elia Haworth Farming and Ranching in Bolinas 1834 to 2010
- Jonathan Rowe Fellow Conservatives
- Steve Heilig Tom Killion on Mount Tam
- Daniel Potts Scattered Threads
- Flor Jimenez Broken Blood
- Jazmine Collazo Good-bye, Hello
- Cynthia A. Cady The Miles Pilot
- Jody Farrell The Cat Lover
- Dave Mitchell Tall Tales of Intelligent Animals
- Terry Nordbye If Two-by-Fours Could Talk
- Poetry
- Jodie Appell Advice for the Marin Lovelorn
- Prartho Sereno The Dancing Cure
- Julia Bartlett Dinner Down the Road
- Gillian Wegener After Dry Lightning
- Juan Avalos Dear Mud
- Albert Flynn DeSilver Hope
- Lynne Knight Apology, with Hawks Veering
- Randall Potts A Natural History
- Hal Ober Camellia and Chameleon
- Roy Mash I Was Getting Ready To Tie My Tie When
- Nellie Hill Winter Horse
- Art + Artifact
- Patti Trimble Endangered Mission Blue
- Nell Melcher Dark Trees
- Ryan Giammona Quail
- Andrzej Michael Karwacki Art Natura 03 and Little Voices of Flowers
- Amanda Tomlin Nicasio Reservoir Thistles and First Rain, White House Pool
- Kurt Lai Path
- Jessica Baldwin Spring Lamb
- Willow Dawson Hummingbird
- Sha Sha Higby In Folds of Tea/Dance in Sculptural Costume
- Marnie Spencer Wish You Were Here
- Terrence Murphy Summer and Fence Mender
- Christa Burgoyne Fuller’s Teasel
- Wendy Goldberg Meadow: West Marin
- Dewey Livingston West Marin Portraiture: Photography by Seth Wood, 1940s to 1950s
- Tom Killion Bolinas Ridge Sunset and Mount Tamalpais from Big Rock Ridge
- Richard Lindenberg Inverness Marsh West
- Lorna Stevens Herd
- Kevin Alvarado Untitled
- Jacqueline Mallegni Sky Barge
- Christin Coy January Afternoon—Bolinas Lagoon
- Kyla Pasternak Jenna
- Mary Siedman Lively Peony and Bolinas Lagoon
- Zea Morvitz Four Prepared Books
- Vi©kisa A Dog’s Life
- Jon Langdon My Matilijas
- Mark Ropers Shades of Red
- Sevilla Granger Marin West; Marin East and Santa Barbara 101
- Mardi Wood Horse