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San Marino, CA 91108
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Carte-de-visite portraits of unidentified men, women, and children taken by some of the pioneer photographers in Los Angeles, California, including V. Wolfenstein, Penelon & Co., and A. S. Addis. The sitters provide excellent examples of costumes of the era.
photPF 20097-20107
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A commercially produced carte-de-visite album containing portraits of men, women, and children in professional studio settings (some possibly in Southern California). Only two subjects are identified in the album (Bill Gamble's father (#74) and Bill Gamble and his mother in San Diego, 1914/15 (#75).
photCL 458
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Carte-de-visite portraits of unidentified men, women, and children taken by some of the pioneer photographers in Los Angeles, California, including V. Wolfenstein, H. Penelon, W. N. Tuttle, and Tuttle & Parker's. The sitters provide excellent examples of costumes of the era.
photPF 5836-5841
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A collection of five photographs of various Beecher family members in five different photographic formats: ambrotype, albumen print, carte-de-visite, cabinet photograph, and a hand-colored salted paper print. A portrait of Lyman Beecher produced by Mathew Brady in 1856 is a combination of watercolor, ink, and pencil added to the surface of a salted paper print. There are two variants of a Beecher family group portrait taken in 1859 depicting Lyman Beecher and nine of his adult children; one is a large albumen print and the other an ambrotype. Also included are an autographed cabinet photograph of an older Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a hand-colored Augustus Morand print based on a miniature of a young Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher, author and wife of Henry Ward Beecher. This carte-de-visite portrait is within a Bullard family album containing 45 additional cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs. Only a few portraits in the album are identified, including some cousins of Eunice Bullard.
photCL 688
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An album featuring a hand-colored albumen print based on a miniature of a young Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher, author and wife of Henry Ward Beecher. The print by photographer Augustus Morand was made approximately 1860s and is on a carte-de-visite mount. Handwriting on the back reads: "Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, taken from a miniature when she was 18 years old." The Bullard family album contains 45 additional cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs dating from approximately 1860s to 1880s. Most people are unidentified, though three identified people were cousins of Eunice: Clara G. Bullard, daughter of William Reed Bullard; and two children, Florence May Wyman and Arthur Wyman, whose parents were Charles F. Wyman and Helen Knight (Bullard) Wyman. Visible imprints identify photographic studios in Boston, New York, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
photCL 688
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A full-length studio portrait of an unidentified young girl resting her right forearm on the back of a simple wooden chair. The girl looks like she is about 8 to 12 years old, and is wearing a plaid patterned dress that reaches just past her knees. She is wearing dark boots that lace up about two-thirds of the way to her knees, a pearl-like necklace, and a band that holds her parted hair back.
HM 77755