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Album of studio portraits from Sacramento and San Francisco
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Bullard family album with portrait of Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher
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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.
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Carte-de-visite album
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A small album of 32 cartes-de visite, primarily souvenir images of Algiers, dated 1884 in handwriting on the backs of several images. Some photographs of Grace and Dora Dalziel, unidentified people, and tintypes of three men, who appear to be Dalziels.
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Albums of studio portraits from Livingston, Montana, and Placerville, California
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A collection of 7 albums chiefly containing late 19th and early 20th century studio portraits of individuals of various ages, with several group portraits, costumed scenes, and dogs and other animals, as well as some snapshots of people and animals in residential areas. A number of photographs have the imprint of photographer Geo. W. Potter (Livingston, Montana, and Placerville, California). In addition to Potter, over 70 different photography studios are represented in the albums, primarily from Northern California and Livingston, including Geo. H. Gilbert (Placerville, Calif.), G.D. Morse (San Francisco, Calif.), Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.), Finn (Livingston, Mont.), Al. Smith (Sacrament, Calif.), Charles Lainer (San Francisco, Calif.), J.A. Todd (Sacramento, Calif.), Saunders (Ukiah, Calif.), and Simas (Placerville, Calif.).
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Album of Abraham Lincoln portraits, Lincoln Family, and events around his life
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A leather album with brass hinges containing cartes-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln and events related to his life and death. There are images of Mary, Robert, and Thomas Lincoln. There are images of the political men of the time including Stephen Douglas, Frank P. Blair, and Thomas Eckert. There are also images of the assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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Portraits. Arranged by photographer; most sitters unidentified
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Chiefly cartes-de-visite and a few small card photographs. Mostly unidentified people, with a few exceptions, named below.
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Cabinet card album
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Two photograph albums of Pilliner family and other portraits, chiefly taken by William H. Pilliner, an early photographer in the American West. Subjects include Pilliner, his wife Eliza Jane (McGuire) Pilliner, members of the Pilliner and McGuire families, and associates. One album contains cartes-de-visite and tintypes, the other is larger, containing mostly cabinet card photographs. The images date from approximately 1870s to 1902, and some are inscribed. The collection also includes a typescript by Cornelia Elizabeth McGuire (Eliza Jane's sister) of the McGuire family genealogy from 1700 to the mid-1900s, and a typescript of W. H. Pilliner's biography. One photograph depicts G. W. Jenkins and I. N. McGuire, the proprietors of the Santa Maria Times, superimposed over a photograph of the newspaper. Some imprints on the images say "W. H. Pilliner, Pioneer Artist" and studio locations include Reno and Idaho Falls. There are also a few photographs by Piggott & Shaw of Santa Rosa, California.
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