Visual Materials
Anne ("Annie") Wilson, Mary E. Stone, and three others in group portrait
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Anne ("Annie") Wilson, Mary E. Stone, and three others in group portrait
Visual Materials
Unidentified people are two women and one man. Anne ("Annie") Wilson (1858-1931) was a daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson. Mary E. Stone (b. about 1854) was the niece of James De Barth Shorb. Date based on estimated age of sitters.
(photDAG 99)
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Charles Lyman Strong and three unidentified men in group portrait
Visual Materials
Charles Lyman Strong (1826-1883) is third from left. He was superintendent of the Gould-Curry mine in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1861. Before that he was in San Francisco, where this photograph was made in the mid-1850s. Information from early catalog record for this image; source unknown.
(photDAG 56)
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Three unidentified children in group portrait [Rix or Hamlin family?]
Visual Materials
Two boys in matching coats and a younger girl. Date based on years of major usage of daguerreotypes.
(photDAG 166)
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[Mary Stone Watkins]. Letter to Annie Wilson. San Gabriel, California
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 1639.
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