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The Jayhawkers of '49

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Description: 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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Date: approximately 1849-approximately 1916
Call number: photCL 1
Provenance: Purchased from Edward T. Colton, 1930. Previously owned by John B. Colton.
Dimensions: images 14 x 10 cm, mounts 16 x 11 cm, album pages 26 x 19 cm +

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

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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.

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John Southworth photographs of Jayhawker Spring, Death Valley

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A group of 10 photographs of sites in Jayhawker Spring, Death Valley, California, taken by John Southworth in 1976. The snapshots show markings on Inscription Rock from many angles, including petroglyphs and the initials of Jayhawker party member William Rood, dated 1849. There are also views of spring water sources and the surrounding canyon. The photographs have detailed captions on the back by Southworth.

photPF 26020

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Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) photograph collection

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A collection of three photograph albums, approximately 200 loose photographs, and three panoramic photographs related to the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Subjects include portraits of LACMA members; medical personnel, buildings, equipment, and facilities. The panoramic photographs depict a group portrait of a member picnic in Sunland (1923); movie extras dressed as bathing beauties in Venice (1918); and a post-convention clinic at Hal Roach Studios, featuring the movie set and over 100 people in a group portrait (1920). The three albums are: USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, first post-graduate class, Summer 1900; California Hospital, Los Angeles, personnel (doctors and nurses), 1908. Includes original photograph of Leon Czolgosz with Bertillon measurements from the Detective Bureau, Police Department of Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1901; and Portraits of French Doctors of the second half of the 19th century.

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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).

photPF 20168-20175

Studio portrait photograph of Edwin Powell Hubble

Manuscripts

Studio Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble. Photographer: Johan Hagemeyer, Camera Portraits Carmel. Photograph signed by photographer, dated 1931.

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Card Photographs (142-170)

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The 29 card photographs, primarily cabinet and boudoir cards and cartes-de-visite, in this series are arranged in three folders in 1 box: Muzzall Family: portraits and group gatherings (Items 142-151) Portrait of Edwin Hayward; Pierce Family portrait; unidentified people and gatherings (Items 152-159) Unidentified portraits; miscellaneous Santa Barbara Photographers (Items 160-170) Among the photographs by additional photographs there is 1 post-mortem card photograph of a baby by Reed (Item 163); a view of the Mission San Luis Rey by Rea (Item 170); and various portraits by Arnold (Item 167); Edwards (Items 164-166); Elliot (Item 159); Judd (Item 168); Reed (Item 145); Stringfield (Item 169); and Westervelt (Item 158).

photCL 493

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