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Miscellaenous portraits and other photographs

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Description: Consists of 18 photographs of people, places, and drawings of places. Some contain annotations written on the verso. Portrait sitters include: Brigadier General Oscar F. Long, Oscar Sutro, Charles Horace Mayo (with autograph), William James Mayo (with autograph), George G. Spurr, Captain William Ransom Johnson Pegram, R. A. Brock, Jr., Thomas Wallace More, and Rosa D'Erina. Locations depicted in photographs are: a drawing of Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, the National Lincoln Monument in Springfield, Illinois, Ford's Theater, Marietta Historical Museum in Ohio, the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and Eaton, Pennsylvania. One image is also a film still from an early Hollywood film, possibly Louis Chaudet's "A Political Tramp."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1830s-1930s.
Call number: photPF 2000-20019
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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.

photPF 2431-2440

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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.

photPF 2443-2447

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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.

photPF 750-769

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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.

photPF 2860-2879

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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.

photPF 2210-2242

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Photographs related to Henry Mayo Newhall

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Eight photographs related to Henry Mayo Newhall and his family, including three cabinet cards: a portrait of Newhall at age 50 by Bradley & Rulofson (photPF 20142); a portrait of Newhall with his family by Rieman & Co. (photPF 20143); and a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Newhall residence, San Francisco (photPF 20144). There are also copy prints of the exteriors of the Newhall residence at 1299 Van Ness Street, San Francisco (photPF 20145) and the Newhall Building at California and Battery Streets, San Francisco in 1914 (photPF 20146), and two color slides and a copy print depicting an oil painting of Henry Mayo Newhall, artist unknown, circa 1850 (photPF 20147). There is an additional folder of photocopied printed material related to Newhall and the images.

photPF 20142-20147

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