Visual Materials

Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

Description: 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).
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.

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: Marysville; Oroville

Visual Materials

One portrait of a Chinese man; one soldier in uniform.

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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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Washington; Wisconsin; Wyoming

Visual Materials

Wisconsin portraits include: a man wearing Viking-style clothing; workers with tools (a machinist and carpenters); men wearing fur coats; a man with blanket and small medicine bag, identified as "Dr. Cole of West Lima." One portrait of a man wearing railroad uniform, identified as a Union Pacific brakeman.

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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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California, Northern: Nelson Point, Nevada City, Oakland, Oroville, Red Bluff, Redding, Sacramento, Salinas

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One portrait of a woman holding a mask over her face (Nevada City); one man in military uniform wearing a button that says "Cal." (Oakland); a group portrait of five cowboys (Oroville); two portraits of men with bicycles (Oroville).

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Colorado; Dakota Territory; Hawaii; Idaho

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