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    Nebraska; Nevada; New Mexico

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    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.

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    California, Northern: Chico, Eureka, Grass Valley, Ione City, Jackson, La Porte, Marysville

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    One portrait of a nun wearing a habit, holding a cross (Grass Valley); one postmortem photograph of a baby (Marysville).

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

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    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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    Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

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    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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    Iowa

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    Includes 21 tintypes and a postmortem photograph of a little boy with flowers in his hands.

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    Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

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    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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