A history of Bishop,
since 1861
Postcards, papers and photographs of Bishop from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area around Bishop was inhabited in late prehistoric times by the Eastern Mono (also called Owens Valley Paiute). The Eastern Mono speak a dialect of the Mono language, which is also Numic but is more closely related to Northern Paiute. The Mono people were predominantly sedentary and settled in fixed settlements along rivers or springs which were fed by snowmelt from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The Eastern Mono spent part of the year foraging across the Owens Valley. The more intensive arable farming by means of partly artificial irrigation enabled them to build up food reserves and feed larger groups. The Eastern Mono presently live in and near Bishop. In 1912, the Eastern Mono reservation was established at 67,000 acres (270 km2), but in 1932, Herbert Hoover revoked the reservation and restricted the Bishop Paiute Tribe to 875 acres (3.54 km2) next to the town of Bis…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Bishop’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
4 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNative American students at Bisho…, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Bishop, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Native American students at Bishop Indian School (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.