Category Archives: california history

New Work

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Thomas Bethune

Red and Green wall near Burnt Ranch. I spent yesterday with some friends on a photographic outing east of home on highway 299.  

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4449

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Thomas Bethune

SP 4449 at Sacramento 1991.

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ARTS ALIVE THIS SATURDAY

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Thomas Bethune

Here is a sample of my images that are part of the exhibit at the F Street Foto Gallery (upstairs at Swanlund’s Photography in Eureka). Most of my images are scanned negatives and color slides from the nineteen eighties and … Continue reading →

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TABLE BLUFF LIGHTHOUSE/RANCH AS IT WAS IN 1980

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Thomas Bethune

Here is the Lighthouse complex as it was in 1980. The lighthouse was still there, but not operating. At the time of the photograph I believe that the complex was operating as The Lighthouse Ranch. Eventually the lighthouse was moved … Continue reading →

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NWP TUNNEL NUMBER 40 AT LOLETA

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Thomas Bethune

  Taken earlier today this is the north entrance. The rest of the tunnel is relatively dry and clean.

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FORT HUMBOLDT

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Thomas Bethune
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ABANDONED RANCH THROUGH A BROKEN WINDOW

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Thomas Bethune

I took this image this morning.

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