Visual Materials

New Mexico; Oregon

Description: 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."
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.

Oklahoma and Indian Territory; Oregon

Visual Materials

Oklahoma portraits include: soldiers; painters; two women looking at a photograph album. Oregon portraits include: a cowboy wearing a pony skin coat posing with his family; soldiers or officers; a Chinese man in traditional Chinese clothing.

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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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Kansas; Minnesota

Visual Materials

Portraits from Kansas include: an African American woman wearing a cross; a young African American man wearing a cap and riding clothes; and a portrait of two women with "Jayhawkers" written on the back.

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California: Far north cities and towns; Traveling photographers

Visual Materials

Contains portraits from Colusa, Red Bluff, Chico, Orland, Ukiah, Ferndale, Lakeport, Eureka, Mendocino City, Fort Jones, Weaverville, Hayden Hill, Crescent City, Alturas, Yreka, Downieville. Several portraits from the C.C. Richardson family album, Chico and Richardson Springs, California. This binder also has cartes-de-visite by traveling photographers, who worked in temporary set-up studios or sometimes worked on railroad cars, moving from town to town. One image shows a group portrait of four men at a table, one with an accordion.

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Iowa; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; Montana

Visual Materials

Portraits in Iowa include: a chemist measuring liquids in bottles; a man with two guns in his belt; an outdoor image of a small church with steeple in Williamsburg. Other portraits include: two individual portraits of African American men (Kansas); a minister with Salvation Army button and violin (Kansas); a baker displaying bread (Minnesota); a couple in front of a house with picket fence (Minnesota).

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Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; Southern California

Visual Materials

There are few photographs from Alaska (1), Arizona (3) and Arkansas (11). One Arkansas portrait depicts a little boy with a rifle. Southern California photographs include portraits from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and other locations. There is a portrait of an African American woman and her baby, with a name written on the back, possibly Mrs. H. G. Hodge. In addition, there are several portraits of Italian American families that have names and writing in Italian on the backs (San Luis Obispo).

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New Mexico; Oregon

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