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Portraits of notable European persons

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Description: Collection of 46 carte-de-visite portraits of notable Victorian-era figures, chiefly British magistrates and peers, which appear to have been published by the London Stereoscopic Company. Later additions to the album include portraits of Queen Victoria, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Benjamin Disraeli, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Otto von Bismark.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1860-approximately 1900]
Call number: photCL 4
Dimensions: images 11 x 6 cm, album pages 15 x 10 cm +
Associated organization: London Stereoscopic Company,
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Portraits of Rose family members and horse

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Includes tintype of a horse with an African American trainer (Item 53); a carte-de-visite by Penelon & Addis (Item 46); a view of Sunny Slope house of Wachtels by A.E. Nichols & Co. (Item 49); a view of Maude and Daisy Rose in their bedroom in the Grand Avenue House by Howland and Chadwick (Item 50).

photCL 156

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Carte-de-visite portraits of James Fenimore Cooper and family members

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Carte-de-visite studio portraits of American author James Fenimore Cooper (photPF 20815), his brother Levi Cooper (photPF 20816, 20818), and his sister Anna Cooper (photPF 20817), two photographers identified on cartes-de-visite versos: J.H. Abbott of Albany, New York (photPF 20815) and Higgins & Terril of Elyria, Ohio (photPF 20817).

photPF 20815-20818

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Photograph album containing cartes-de-visite and tintype portraits of unidentified sitters

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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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Albums of European views

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Two albums of commercial photographs from Europe, especially Spain, Italy, England, Switzerland, and France. The first album includes photographs of Granada, focusing on the Alhambra, city streets, and ancient and modern buildings. Some of the images have been amateurishly hand-tinted, and several bear the mark of Linares fotografo. Photographs of the French Riviera by "ND Phot" show Nice, Menton, La Turbie, and Monaco, with special attention shown to Monte Carlo and the Casino there. Photographs of Naples, some by Alinari and some by Sommer, show street scenes, portraits of locals, a funeral, piazzas, and monuments such as Forte S. Elmo and Galleria Umberto I. Other subjects in the first volume in smaller numbers are Genoa, Vesuvius, Pompeii, and Montblanc. The second album begins with photographs of Rome including several photographs of marble sculptures by Cenova and Bernini. Photographs of Florence show palaces, squares, monuments, the Campanile, and the Duomo. The majority of pictures of Lucerne are by Bruno and Arthur Wehrli, known professionally as the Gebrüder Wehrli. A small number of photographs of palaces in France, including Fountainbleau, is followed by views of London. The London photographs are signed variously by "L. S. & P. Co." and "Stereoscopic Co." (which both seem to be the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company), "G. W. W.", "F. F. & Co.", and "J. V."

photCL 134

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Studio portraits of unidentified residents of Los Angeles

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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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[Portrait of unidentified girl]

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Carte-de-visite portrait of a young girl. Based on original envelope transcription, it appears Parker intended to create a negative copy of this print.

photCL MLP 3997

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