Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Photograph album containing cartes-de-visite and tintype portraits of unidentified sitters
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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.
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An album of carte-de-visite portrait photographs of mostly unidentified people, signed on the first page: "J. M. (illegible), Baltimore, Md." The photographs were mostly taken in studios in Baltimore, New York, and Washington D.C. Photographers identified include: Bendann Brothers, Egbert G. Fowx, Alexander Gardner, and Brady Studios. The sitters are men, women, and children, with several men in Civil War uniforms, a few of which are tintypes. Some photographs appear to be purchased souvenirs of well-known people, including Confederate General Turner Ashby, and John Wilkes Booth.
photCL 680
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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.
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A group of eight carte-de-visite studio photographs of individual Pawnee men and one view of several tipis with white men standing nearby. All taken by photographer H. Fish of Fremont, Nebraska or Jackson Bros., Omaha. Also in this folder, two carte-de-visite photographs of hydraulic mining ("Sluice Flumes" and "Timbuctoo Diggings") in Yuba County, California by Lawrence & Houseworth.
photPF 2900-2919
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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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Approximately 5,000 cartes-de-visite and a few tintypes, almost all portraits. The carte-de-visite, or calling card photograph, is generally an albumen print mounted on cardstock, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches. Some photographs are hand colored or have handwritten names written on the back. The binders contain about 200 to 250 photographs each.
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