Miscellaneous portraits and scenes in the Americas

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  Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

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  Portrait photographs of members of the Del Valle family of Southern California and friends taken by various Los Angeles and San Francisco photographers in the late 19th century. Portraits include Mrs. Ignacio Del Valle and Reginaldo del Valle (photPF 20168); Isabella Del Valle, photograph by Taber (photPF 20169); a group portrait of the Del Valle family by F. G. Schumacher (photPF 20170); Maria de Jesus Sue Wilson Shorb, daughter of Don Benito Wilson, photograph by Morse (photPF 20171); Edward L. Watkins, photograph by V. Wolfenstein (photPF 20172); a group portrait of the Watkins family, 1890, by Westervelt (photPF 20173); William Sanford Banning, as a child (photPF 20174); the Newmark family, photograph by Elite (photPF 20175); and a photograph of Ignacio J. F. Forster as a baby, photograph by Marceau (photPF 20175).

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  Tintype portraits of men, women, and children

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  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.

  photPF 20237-20244

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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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  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).

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  Portraits of the Hawaiian royal family

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  4 card photographs with studio portraits of members of the Hawaiian royal family: Emma, Queen Consort, standing beside a table wearing a sash, crown, and a dress with a long train (photPF 21102); a half-length portrait of David Kalakaua (photPF 21103); a half-length portrait of Queen Liliuokalani (photPF 21104); and John Owen Dominis, Prince Consort, wearing a straw hat and standing against a studio backdrop of a tree-lined river (photPF 21104).

  photPF 21102-21105

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  Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places

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  Consists of six items including photographs, cyanotypes, one postcard, and one packet of 12 small prints. photPF 740 is a photograph of the El Molino Viejo; photPF 741 is a photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont; photPF 742 is a postcard of the birthplace of Nathan Hale; photPF 747 is a packet containing 12 small views of the damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; photPF 748-749 are two still-life cyanotypes taken at the laboratory of asphalt paving plant at Carpenteria, depicting a skull with a hat (labeled "the prof") and a pair of old miner shoes.

  photPF 740-749