ANACAPA ISLAND HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS
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- Anacapa Island
Camping Party waiting for a sail,
Middle Anacapa Island,1889.
In August 1889, a group of artists and members of the Santa Barbara Natural History Society chartered Ezekiel Elliott's sloop, Brisk, for a 10-day cruise to Anacapa Island.
The party included
photographer Isaac Newton Cook (1827-1894)(long beard)
and his assistant, Harry Jenkins (far right),
naturalist Lorenzo Yates (third from right),
and Yates's good friend and noted artist
Henry Chapman Ford (center, sitting in a chair).