Visual Materials

Nebraska; Nevada; New Mexico

Description: Portraits in Nebraska include: a man holding a cat; workers with tools (possibly plumbers); girls with large hoops; soldiers. Nevada portraits include: a soldier with sword; two boys with two sheep.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860-1910.
Call number: photCL 581
Creator: Mautz, Carl(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased for the Huntington from Carl Mautz by the Library Collectors' Council, January 2016.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Nebraska; Nevada

Visual Materials

Portraits in Nebraska include: a postmortem photograph of a young girl; a soldier holding a rifle. A Virginia City, Nevada portrait has writing on the back: "Indian War soldier wearing 1851 sword belt plate and 1850 officer's sword Medal of Honor. Name unknown."

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Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

Visual Materials

Dakota Territory photographs include some imprinted with South Dakota or North Dakota, which were taken after 1889, the year of statehood. Portraits include: a soldier (Fort Collins, Colorado); a man on a bicycle (Colorado); painters and carpenters with tools (Dakota); an East Indian man with rugs (Dakota); three portraits of native Hawaiian women wearing Western-style dresses (Honolulu, Hawaii); an outdoor group portrait of students and two wooden school buildings (Silver City, Idaho, 1884).

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California: Sierra Nevada towns (excluding Grass Valley and Nevada City)

Visual Materials

Many of the portraits were made in Placerville and Sonora. One image of three men sitting at a table, smoking cigars and drinking beer; one tintype of a soldier.

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New Mexico; Oregon

Visual Materials

There are 14 photographs from New Mexico. One is a portrait of Lt. Peter Dumont Vroom Jr. (1842-1926), U.S. Army Brigadier General. There is also an outdoor photograph of a woman on a horse, with a view of a small Western town and boardwalk, taken by an Albuquerque photographer. Portraits from Oregon include: Zenas Ferry Moody, 7th governor of Oregon, his son, and 29 other portraits marked by the collector as "from Governor Moody group."

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California: Grass Valley; Nevada City

Visual Materials

Collector Carl Mautz acquired some photographs from the William S. May family album in Grass Valley, California around 1990. There are portraits of a young white couple, May and his wife Anna (Conaway) May, and four African Americans - a man, Boz Harrison; a woman, Hannah Harrison; and two girls, Minnie and Fannie Harrison. Anna's father, Carville Conaway, arrived in California from Baltimore in 1851, settling in Grass Valley with his family, who arrived later. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census shows that Carville Conaway had three enslaved people in his household in Baltimore. It is unclear if these are the same people. The tintype of Minnie Harrison has an imprint indicating it was taken in Baltimore. Research information regarding these photographs is in the collection information file. Please see Reader Services for more information. This binder also contains a street view of the Nevada City Courthouse; a group portrait of four men and two horses in Nevada City; and two men in military uniforms.

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Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

Visual Materials

Portraits include: an African American woman (Colorado); a cowboy wearing leather chaps (Colorado); men in military uniform, including a Native American soldier (Dakota); native Hawaiians; and a portrait of two Chinese children (Idaho).

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