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Mandan Indian Me-ra-pa-ra-pa or Lance

Description: Cartes-de-visite photographs include: two different portraits of John Wilkes Booth, seated and holding cane, approximately 1862-1865; portrait of Harry Love, head of the California Rangers, by Bradley & Rulofson; portrait of Seth Kinman, California hunter and trapper (1864) by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries. Also cabinet card photographs of: Native American man identified as "Mandan Indian" on verso, (Me-Ra-Pa-Ra-Pa or Lance) by Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories; portrait of Donaciano Vigil (?) by H. T. Hiester, Santa Fe, New Mexico; portraits of Henry W. Longfellow and John G. Whittier, both by Charles Taber & Co., New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. Lastly, a photograph of two men outside the H. S. Van DeMark Real Estate office by Corliss & Bancroft, New York, and a photograph of an unidentified Japanese garden at a residence in Hollywood.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1874
Call number: photPF 1545
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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The Jayhawkers of '49

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A collection of 1 group portrait and 28 individual portraits of members of the "Jayhawkers of '49", a party of 36 gold hunters who crossed Death Valley to reach California in 1849. Most of the photographs are formal studio portraits taken in the 1880s and 1890s. The group portrait, by J. H. Grabill depicts John B. Colton, Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), Robert Haslam ("Pony Bob"), dime-novel author Prentiss Ingraham, and Col. Alex Majors. There is one portrait photograph of Christopher "Kit" Carson and one of famed western mountain man and trapper, Jim Bridger. The earliest photograph is a copy of an 1849 daguerreotype of Alex S. Palmer.

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Sioux Indians portraits and drawing

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Four portraits of Sioux Indian leaders and one drawing related to the August 1862 Sioux Massacre in Minnesota. The portraits are: Sioux Chief Standing Buffalo by photographer Joel Emmons Whitney (photPF 20261); and Shakopee (photPF 20262), and Wind Rattler Walking (photPF 20263), and Great Eagle's Tail (photPF 20264) by photographer Joseph Hill of St. Paul, Minnesota. The drawing (photPF 20265) is a pen-and-ink rendering after a photograph of a group portrait of white men, women, and children on the prairie titled "People Escaping from the Indian Massacre" that was published in "History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863" by Isaac V.D. Heard. (RB 246053). There are notes in ink on the backs of the items, part of which say that they were purchased in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1862 from D. Wilson Howe, and that the names and translations were made by Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, missionary. The note on the drawing verso identifies the original portrait photographer as Adrian Ebell.

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Napoleon Sarony cabinet photographs of Theodore Tilton and William A. Beach

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Two cabinet photograph portraits of men connected to Henry Ward Beecher: Theodore Tilton, a poet and former assistant to Beecher who sued him in an adultery scandal in 1874; and Tilton's lawyer, William A. Beach, who attempted to prosecute Beecher in the ensuing trial. The photographs were both taken by Napoleon Sarony in New York. Tilton's portrait was taken between 1866 and 1871 when Sarony was at his 37 Union Square studio, and Beach's portrait was taken after 1871, at Sarony's Broadway studio.

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Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

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Portrait photographs of members of the Del Valle family of Southern California and friends taken by various Los Angeles and San Francisco photographers in the late 19th century. Portraits include Mrs. Ignacio Del Valle and Reginaldo del Valle (photPF 20168); Isabella Del Valle, photograph by Taber (photPF 20169); a group portrait of the Del Valle family by F. G. Schumacher (photPF 20170); Maria de Jesus Sue Wilson Shorb, daughter of Don Benito Wilson, photograph by Morse (photPF 20171); Edward L. Watkins, photograph by V. Wolfenstein (photPF 20172); a group portrait of the Watkins family, 1890, by Westervelt (photPF 20173); William Sanford Banning, as a child (photPF 20174); the Newmark family, photograph by Elite (photPF 20175); and a photograph of Ignacio J. F. Forster as a baby, photograph by Marceau (photPF 20175).

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Photographs of Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott and others

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Photographic portraits of the following individuals: Studio portrait of Jefferson Davis, seated (1880s); General Winfield Scott (1860?); engraving made from a photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady (1864); James Thomas Fields carte-de-visite; John Ericcson; E. J. Davison(?); stereograph of S. C. Willey (and family?) in front of residence, Campton Village, New Hampshire; "The Lecture Platform" - a composite of 45 portraits, identified on verso, published by the American Literary Bureau, agency for lecturers, readers and singers; and two people in front of the R. A. Brock home(?), Richmond, Virginia.

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Shaeffer (Altoona and Bellefonte, PA)

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The collection consists of 809 portrait photographs in a variety of formats. It is a reference collection of individual and group portraits and contains portraits of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angelenos and Southern Californians from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images created by a number of well-known California photographers.

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