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Group portrait of seven businessmen, taken in California

Description: Four of the men are identified in handwriting on a copy of this photograph in the Historical Society of Southern California photograph collection (photCL 400, box 36), by an unknown source: "Back row, left to right: William McKee, Charles Johnson, Alfred Robinson (?) and man seated, second from right: Robert Carlisle." Photographer's imprint on inside front cover: "Robert H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years that Vance had galleries in these locations.
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Date: [approximately 1853-1855]
Call number: (photDAG 36)
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. Assembled into a collection by the Library from various sources. See finding aid for sources of individual items.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Items are fragile. Available with curatorial approval. Please view digital surrogates.

Group portrait of seven businessmen, taken in California

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photDAG 36

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Mrs. Dwight Plympton Conklin wearing dark bracelets and necklace with cross

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Photographer: Robert H. Vance. Imprint inside case: "R. H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years Vance was operating in those three locations. Sitter identified by unknown source at time of transfer.

(photDAG 18)

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Dwight Plympton Conklin

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Dwight Plympton Conklin (1829-1856) was a California settler and Gold Rush miner. Note with item reads: "Dwight Plympton Conklin, uncle of George Chandler Conklin." Photographer: Robert H. Vance. Imprint inside case: "R. H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years Vance was operating in those three locations.

(photDAG 17)

Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue group portrait, Hillside Farm. 1925

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Over one hundred men pose for this panoramic photograph of the Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue at Hillside Farm. The men sit and stand in an area with American flags and a long Hudson-Essex banner hung overhead. Picnic tables and food servers are in the background on the far right. The ms. note on the negative spells barbecue "barbacue".

photCL 402 (40007)

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Group portrait of Huntington Library employees in the Japanese Garden, Huntington Library, San Marino, California

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Photographer: Robert Shlaer. View of 201 employees posed in the Japanese Garden, with elements of the garden visible. The collection file contains a typescript key identifying almost all of the sitters.

(photDAG 154 daguerreotype)

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Portrait of Captain John B. Colton

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A half-length oval-shaped studio portrait of Union Captain John B. Colton turned very slightly to the right. Colton is wearing his uniform, has his hair combed across his head, and has a mustache and narrow goatee. The photograph is mounted in a black case lined with dark red velvet, within a gilt-decorated, floral setting.

photDAG 11

Group portrait of seven businessmen, taken in California

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