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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Walter Scribner Schuyler photographs
- Description
- Consists of 68 print photographs, negatives, snapshots, postcards, cabinet cards, and portraits from the Walter Scribner Schuyler collection. Several call numbers are assigned to a group of photographs. photPF 1230 consists of 16 photographs of Schuyler, army officers, and indigenous peoples taken during his army service in the American Indian Wars, the Philippines, and the Russo-Japanese War. Some photographs have short captions inscribed on the verso. photPF 1231 contains nine photographs of Schuylers and others with first person inscriptions on the verso. Locations include Mission Carmel, Southern California, a ranch, and the Huachuca mountains. photPF 1240, in which 25 individual photographs are labeled 1240a-w, were taken during his service in the Philippines. Two items within this range are duplicates; locations include Corregidor, Silang, Manila (Escolta Street and the Ayuntamiento), Naic, and Bagac (Hotel De Oriente). Also included are photos of Filipino revolutionaries such as General Mariano Riego de Dios and everyday Filipinos. Other locations in this collection include Fort Riley, Kansas; Tucson, Arizona; Washington, D.C.; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hamburg, Germany. Photographs also include portraits of the United States' 5th Calvary, Kiowa peoples, Cheyenne peoples, Lieutenant Meat, and other unidentified indigeous peoples. One family photo of Walter Scribner Schuyler, his son Walter Schuyler Grant, and grandson Walter Schuyler Grant Jr. is also included. Two negatives are also included within this collection along with an envelope nothing that their prints can be found in Schuyler's diary.
