Humboldt County Historical Society
A Collector's Obsession: Photographs from Humboldt County, California
from the collection of Peter E. Palmquist
This book includes about 200 photographs from Humboldt County, selected from Palmquist's collection of nearly 85,000 images. There are pictures of Robert Kennedy visiting KIEM-TV in 1968; the 1896 Freshwater Band; the wreck of the Corona in 1908, and many others. There are also biographies of Humboldt County photographers from Louis Altpeter and Ray Jerome Baker to Rebekah Burgess and Cheryle Easter. Softcover. 244 pages.