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Tintype portraits of men, women, and children

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Description: Tintype portraits of unidentified men, women, and children, approximately 1870s. The sitters are in studio settings; some of the portraits are hand-tinted. PhotPF 20237 depicts two young women dressed in white, seated and with their arms crossed; a male figure with his face partially obscured stands behind them. PhotPF 20243, a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man, is an example of a painted tintype. Photographers are unidentified.
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Production date: approximately 1870s.
Call number: photPF 20237-20244
Provenance: Gift of Darryl Curran, December 2014.
Dimensions: most approximately 3 1/2-4 in. x 2 1/2 in., painted tintype 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.

Two tintypes of women in Plains Indian headdress

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Two novelty photographs of women wearing Plains Indian headdresses, provided as souvenirs from the San Gabriel Mission in Southern California. PhotPF 24353 has handwritten inscription on verso: "L. Dickenson, Churchill Road, Sierra Madre, California."

photPF 24352-24353

Group portrait of men and women

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A panoramic group portrait of unidentified men and women. There are around 130 people, many of whom seem to be young adults, posed on the lawn off to the side of a large building with steps and columns.

photCL 402 (40092)

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Studio portraits of Native Americans of New Mexico and scenes of Santa Fe, New Mexico and surrounding territory

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24 cabinet cards with portraits, city scenes, and a few landscape views depicting Indian camps and the surrounding countryside. The 8 studio portraits include Native American men, women, and children in both traditional and Western dress and include Apache and Pueblo Indians, with individuals from the Tesuque Pueblo. The city scenes show locales in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and one depicts a Catholic religious demonstration on a Santa Fe street. There are also 4 views of burros. Most views are unidentified, but some contain printed or handwritten titles: Apache Girl - Indian School (photPF 20751); 229. Pueblo Senora from Tesuque (photPF 20754); 228. Pueblo Indian and daughter (photPF 20755); College Street, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20764); Territorial Capitol, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20765); Our Lady of the Rosary [Santa Fe] (photPF 20767); House of Representatives (photPF 20767); 215. A medley: scenes in Santa Fe, N.M. [of burros], May 1887 (photPF 20772); Guadalupe Church (photPF 20773).

photPF 20751-20774

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Sioux Indians portraits and drawing

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Four portraits of Sioux Indian leaders and one drawing related to the August 1862 Sioux Massacre in Minnesota. The portraits are: Sioux Chief Standing Buffalo by photographer Joel Emmons Whitney (photPF 20261); and Shakopee (photPF 20262), and Wind Rattler Walking (photPF 20263), and Great Eagle's Tail (photPF 20264) by photographer Joseph Hill of St. Paul, Minnesota. The drawing (photPF 20265) is a pen-and-ink rendering after a photograph of a group portrait of white men, women, and children on the prairie titled "People Escaping from the Indian Massacre" that was published in "History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863" by Isaac V.D. Heard. (RB 246053). There are notes in ink on the backs of the items, part of which say that they were purchased in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1862 from D. Wilson Howe, and that the names and translations were made by Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, missionary. The note on the drawing verso identifies the original portrait photographer as Adrian Ebell.

photPF 20261-20265

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[Miniature album of tintype portraits]

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Miniature album with leather binding containing twenty-two tintype portraits with the following sitters identified by penciled captions in a nineteenth-century hand: Fannie Winslow; Isanna Page; Caroline Flint; Lucy Huntoon[?]; Leslie Huntoon[?]; Mr. Winslow; Emma Flint; Eva Flint; Martha Davis; and Lizzie Barnard[?]

photDAG 129

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Miscellaneous portraits and scenes in the Americas

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Consists of eight photographs including a carte de visite, cabinet cards, and mounted photographs. photPF 2040 depicts a tally-ho with holiday makers in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, dated May 18, 1902. photPF 2041 is a photograph of what is labeled as "the largest herd" of reindeer in Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales, dated 1911. photPF 2041a is a portrait of Confederate general James Longstreet. photPF 2042 is a view of a street in León, Nicaragua. photPF 2043 is an autographed portrait of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to Max Farrand, the first director of The Huntington Library. photPF 2044 is a group photo labeled "Taft Reception Committee" with unidentified sitters in an unidentified location; a handwritten note on the verso notes October 1909. photPF 2045 is a group portrait of the original locators of Buffalo Hump. All are identified by first and middle initial and last name. Charlie Robbins, one of the most well known of the gold miners out of this group. photPF 2046 contains a portrait of Elizabeth Yount Davis Sullivan enclosed in a folder with a handwritten summary of her life and family, which is also included as a separate typed transcript.

photPF 2040-2046

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