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Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
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Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
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Variant view of photDAG 52.
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Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
Visual Materials
photDAG 52
Postmortem photograph of child Margaret Hereford Wilson, lying on a bier with flowers around her
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photDAG 53
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Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. Letter to Ozro W. Childs. Lake Vineyard, California
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 1094.
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Emma Childs Dwight. Letter to Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. [New York, N.Y.]
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 1275.
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Benjamin Davis Wilson family photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs of Benjamin Davis "Don Benito" Wilson (1811-1878) and family members, and a few photographs of his Lake Vineyard residence in the San Gabriel Valley, California. The majority of photographs are studio portraits of individuals and family groups, approximately 1860s-1917, many of which are cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite. The primary subjects are Wilson, his second wife, Margaret S. Hereford (d.1898), and Wilson's children from his two marriages: Maria de Jesus "Sue" Wilson (Shorb), John B. Wilson (1846-1870), Ruth Wilson, and Ann ("Nan" or "Annie") Wilson. Others pictured in the collection are: Medora ("Dora") Hereford; Edward Sublette Hereford; Thomas Hereford; Mary Stone, Victor Yorba, Don Bernardo Yorba (photograph of a drawing), and a young man named [A. S.?] Johnston Jr. (photograph of a drawing). Of particular note in the collection is a post-mortem photograph of Maria de Jesus "Sue" Wilson Shorb, 1917. There are a few portraits of unidentified women, including an [African American?] woman in a photograph by George W. Sittler (Springfield, Missouri). Members of the Wilson and Shorb famillies are seen on the porch of the Lake Vineyard house, approximately 1875, and there are two views of furnished rooms in the house. Photographers represented are the Elite Gallery (Payne, Stanton & Co.), Frank G. Schumacher, James D. Westervelt and Valentin Wolfenstein (Los Angeles); and Bradley & Rulofson, G. D. Morse, and Louis Thors (San Francisco).
photCL 283