Miscellaenous portraits and other photographs

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  Miscellaenous photographs in Oregon and California

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  Consists of eleven photographs, includuing copy prints, photoprints, and mounted photographs. Most have inscriptions on the verso. photPF 2431-2434 depicted construction and staff at Fort Dalles, Oregon. photPF 2435 is a portrait of Judge George Henry Williams, the United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant and third chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. photPF 2436 is a photogrpah of a minature portrait of Presley Neville O'Bannon of the United States Marine Corps, reknown for his participation in the First Barbary War and the Battle of Derna, Libya. photPF 2437 is a cabinet card of the Shorb family home which formerly sat the grounds of the Huntington estate in San Marino; notes on the verso indicate when the structure was built and remodeled. A second photograph labeled photPF 2437 is of Guajome Ranch (Coutt's Ranch) in San Diego County. photPF 2438 is a copy print of the Moneyan Institute of San Gabriel, designed by William Money who was widely regarded as Los Angeles' first cult leader. photPF 2439 is a portrait of Jules Simoneau, a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. photPF 2440 is a photograph of the first casting of the "Mildred and William Dean Howells" bronze relief which currently sits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (NPG.65.65). An inscription in Mildred's hand is written on the verso, and it is accompanied by a note from Mildred addressed to Mr. Schad.

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  Miscellaenous photographs in Oregon and California

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  Consists of five mounted photographs. Two are of Rogue River Falls in Oregon and one is of Mill Creek Falls in California, which were possibly taken for use for a hydro-electric project. There is also one photograph of a burnt out and unscrapped trolly car of an unidentified company in an unidentified location, and one portrait of Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood, an Oregon pioneer. Her portrait is accompanied by a biography and family history on the verso.

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  Portrait photographs of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Starr King, and others

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  Carte-de-visite photographs of various individuals, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and poet, by E. Anthony, New York, approximately 1865. Other portraits: Maximilian I of Mexico and his wife Carlotta; Kalakaua, king of Hawaii; Dr. James McChesney and Emma McChesney; Dr. A. W. McNaughton; a group portrait of James Kinnivan, "Sawyer" and "Moore" (in Hong Kong); William H. Gardener; Adah Isaacs Menken (after a painting); three portraits of Elisha Oscar Crosby, American lawyer and politician; Dr. Lane; two portraits of Henry Huntly Haight, governor of California; Levi L. Willcutt; and three portraits of Thomas Starr King, American Universalist and Unitarian minister.

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  Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and Arizona

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  Consists of five photographs, two of which are hand colored. Photographs include Arizonan prickly pear by Elias A. Bonine, saguaro (cereus giganteus) cacti by Carleton Watkins, sunset over the Santa Susana mountains by Robert Charlton, horse racing in Pomona by Frasher's, and a portrait by John Kimball Stevens of William James Mayo (of the Mayo Brothers clinic) addressed to Dr. John Adair.

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  Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs

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  Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.

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  Drawings and miscellaenous photographs

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  This collection contains personal papers, business records, correspondence, photographs, prints, and ephemera that relate to Los Angeles theatre impresario, Lynden E. Behymer. The materials date from approximately 1850 to 1998, with the bulk of the collection ranging from the 1910s to 1940s. A small portion of the collection consists of biographical information about Behymer and his family. The Personal and biographical materials series contains albums, scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence relating to Behymer's birthdays, tributes, and other celebratory events. Of note in the collection are the Business records and Correspondence series. The materials primarily relate to Behymer's involvement in managing musicians, actors, actresses, dancers, singers, theatres, and organizations in the music and entertainment industry in California and abroad. Included are approximately 2,400 pieces of correspondence with organizations such as the California Grand Opera Company, the Chicago Grand Opera Company, the Los Angeles Repertory Theatre, the Merola Opera Company, and the San Francisco Opera Association. Formats consist of account books, ledgers, receipt books, agreements, contracts, correspondence, and notes by Behymer. A significant portion of the collection consists of programs, which are organized by theatre programs, movie theatre programs, and souvenir programs. Theatre programs are one of the largest series in the collection, and consist of theatres based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, as well as other states and international countries. Many of these theatres (Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, Burbank Theatre, Philharmonic Auditorium, Chicago Opera House, etc.) are also represented in the Press clippings and Theatre scrapbooks series. Souvenir programs are incorporated into the Music, dance, and drama series as they primarily pertain to performers and musicians such as: Anna Pavlova, Ballets Russes, Ruth St. Denis, La Argentina (Antonia Mercé y Luque), Trudi Schoop, Sarah Bernhardt, Helena Modjeska, Mei Lan-Fang, Ignace Jan Paderewski, and many others. Additional materials in the Music, dance, and drama series include librettos, prompt books, plays, poetry, sheet music, and correspondence with various music organizations and clubs. The collection also contains approximately 3,000 photographs of performers and performances. The photographs range from signed portrait photographs, to play and set designs, musicians on stage, and some press photographs of the Behymer family at events and premieres. A small number of prints, drawings, and ephemera are also found in the collection. They include Behymer's personalized book plates and stationery, travel tickets, memorabilia, invitations, celebrity signatures, business cards, travel guides, postcard albums, greeting cards, drawings, prints by Alfred Frueh and Max Reinhardt, and costume designs.

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