Unidentified family photograph album | Collections | The Huntington

Unidentified family photograph album | Collections | The Huntington

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Photographs of family, relatives, and friends
Manuscripts
18 pieces. Chiefly carte-de-visite and card photographs of young women and children, as well as the exterior of "The Adams Place, Bethel, Vermont," a photograph of four women on camels in front of Egyptian pyramids, 1925, and two photographs of the interior of a sitting room with a mural over the fireplace.
mssBissell papers
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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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William H. Pilliner family photograph albums
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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.
photCL 202
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Photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer Families
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The collection consists of six photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer families depicting life in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Volume 1 (disbound) contains 48 cartes-de-visite portraits of classmates of Annie Rix in San Francisco, ca. 1874; Volume 2: disbound album of 26 cartes-de-visite portraits related to the Rix family, ca. 1860s-1880s; Volume 3: Yosemite snapshots, June 1905 (58 photographs; prints various sizes in album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 4: Snapshots, 1870s-1915 of family, friends, social gatherings, residences, and pets in San Francisco and Berkeley, including views of the buildings at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 (approx. 290 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18 x 28 cm); Volume 5: photograph album of Mildred Maurer, 1912-1916 with photographs of Lake Chabot in Piedmont Park, Diamond Canyon, and Yosemite (approximately 122 photographs; prints various sizes, album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 6: images taken in France in 1919 during World War I and in California in 1920 (approx. 300 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18.5 x 29 cm).
photCL 453
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Kawakami family photograph album
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A photograph album depicting a Japanese American family in California in the pre-internment period, along with portraits of Japanese family members. There isn't any writing in the album, but one photograph is inscribed "To Mr. S. Kawakami," who may be the compiler. The album begins with formal portraits of family groups in traditional Japanese dress that were most likely taken in Japan. A photograph of a young child laid into the album has Japanese printing on it, and there are a few pressed flowers in the album. Other images show Japanese Americans in California, including the University of California, Berkeley campus; a large group in front of the Berkeley Buddhist Temple on Channing Way, Berkeley; Ocean Park Pier in Santa Monica; downtown Los Angeles; Santa Barbara Mission; and San Francisco. Three images depict a sumo wrestling match that may have taken place in California.
photCL 648
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Photograph albums -- Andrews family
Manuscripts
Included: Loose photograph of children in front of schoolhouse
mssWhittier