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Albert B. Hayward Family album

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Description: 76 photographs from a disbound album related to Dr. Albert B. Hayward, an early resident of Los Angeles, California, dating from the 1860s-1870s. The collection consists primarily of carte-de-visite portraits of Hayward's family and associates, including two portraits of Los Angeles photographer William Godfrey. In addition, there are five of the earliest carte-de-visite views of Los Angeles, circa 1868, as well as an exterior view of the residence of Hayward at 52 Aliso Street. Many of the sitters are unidentified, but they provide excellent examples of clothing of the era. Identified photographers include William Godfrey; the Sunbeam Gallery; Penelon & Co.; H.T. Payne; Martin & Tuttle; Valentin Wolfstein; Tuttle & Lee; Flanders & Godfrey's; and Bradley & Rulofson.
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Production date: approximately 1865-1879.
Call number: photCL 405
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, 1998.
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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, 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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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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Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Portrait Photographs

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This collection consists of 809 photographs of individual and group portraits, dating from circa 1850s-1997 (bulk 1860s-1930s), that formed part of the Historical Society of Southern California Photo Archives. It is a reference collection and includes images of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angeles and Southern California figures from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images in a variety of formats that were created by a number of well-known California photographers. These include James B. Blanchard, Boyé, Curtis Studios, George N. Dewey, Edouart and Son, Garden City Foto Co., William M. Godfrey, A.C. Golsh, Hayward and Muzzall, Fred Hartsook, Hiller and Mott, Theodore C. Marceau, Francis Parker (as Parker and Co., Parker and Hasselman, and Parker's Photographic Parlors), Payne Stanton and Co., Henri Penelon, Steve A. Rendall, Frank G. Schumacher, William Shew, John Pitcher Spooner, George Steckel, Isaiah West Taber, William Nutting Tuttle (as Tuttle and Lee, and Tuttle and Co.), O.E. Tyler, Davidson Roby Weaver, Michael A. Wesner, James D. Westervelt (also in partnership with Charles J. Coules), and Valentin Wolfenstein. The Griggs portraits depict young women in various settings; the Kathryn Murdoch gift is primarily of album pages with snapshots of local sites in Los Angeles.

photCL 400 volume 31

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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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Unidentified family carte-de-visite album

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A photograph album of carte-de-visite studio portraits and a few tintypes of men, women, and children. There are no identifications in the album, but a name was found written in ink on the back of the first photograph: William B. Leach, in a portrait by Alexander Hesler, Chicago, Ill. Imprints seen on several other photographs are from studios in Aurora and Elgin, Illinois. There are two portraits of young men in Civil War soldier's uniforms.

photCL 364

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Unidentified family photograph album

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A commercially produced carte-de-visite photograph album compiled by an unidentified person containing cartes-de-visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children. Photographers imprints are from the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. There are also five additional loose card photographs: a portrait of United States President James A. Garfield, captioned "Our Late President," and one of his wife, Lucretia Garfield by "Pell"; photographs of a family in front of a log-cabin house and a two-story house; and a photograph by S. Marksville of people standing in the front of the C.C. Lass shop, presumably in New York, with an Indian statue on the sidewalk and illustrated newspaper covers displayed in the windows.

photCL 501

Albert B. Hayward Family album

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