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    Miniature Portraits

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    Milton tercentenary : the portraits, prints, and writings of John Milton, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1908

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    Account of the Milton portraits, and of the early eds. of the poems, contributed by G.C. Williamson. Appendix on eds. and on books about Milton to be found at Cambridge, written by Charles Sayle

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    Portraits of Pueblo Indians identified as Hopi, Isleta, Acoma, Zuni

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    Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.

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    Exhibition of portrait miniatures

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    Exhibition of portrait miniatures

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    [Miniature album of tintype portraits]

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    Miniature album with leather binding containing twenty-two tintype portraits with the following sitters identified by penciled captions in a nineteenth-century hand: Fannie Winslow; Isanna Page; Caroline Flint; Lucy Huntoon[?]; Leslie Huntoon[?]; Mr. Winslow; Emma Flint; Eva Flint; Martha Davis; and Lizzie Barnard[?]

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