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Photographs of Fort Churchill and Bowers Mansion in Nevada

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Description: Three photographs of the ruins of Fort Churchill, Nevada, a U.S. Army fort built in 1860, and one photograph of Bowers Mansion, Nevada, a grand house built in 1863 by Alison "Eilley" Orrum Bowers and her husband Lemuel Bowers. The prints are 4 x 5 inches and there are four corresponding film negatives, which are housed separately. The photographer is unidentified.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1946.
Call number: photPF 26010
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1995.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information. RESTRICTED: Negatives housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Photograph of Winston Churchill

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A portrait photograph of Winston Churchill taken by Armenian Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh in Ottawa, Canada on December 30, 1941. The image is a well-known half-length portrait of Churchill facing the camera, with his hand on his hip. The print is signed by Karsh on the front below the image, and the back is stamped "Karsh, Ottawa" with "R.L." written in pencil. According to the Karsh Estate, R.L. stands for Roaring Lion, which is the title this portrait came to be known by after Churchill told Karsh that Karsh could "make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed." The Estate also provided the date of the sitting.

photPF 26011

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Claude Gernade Bowers papers

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Primarily correspondence between Claude Gernade Bowers and lawyer Theodore Fred Kuper while Bowers was ambassador to Spain and Chile. Subjects covered include the Spanish Civil War, politics and government of the United States, and United States foreign relations. Also included are two typed manuscripts of Bowers's book My Mission to Spain (approximately 1939 and 1945); and a typed manuscript of My Life, published posthumously in 1962 as My Life: the Memoirs of Claude Bowers. There is also a small amount of publishing related correspondence, photographs, and two books by Spanish politician Manuel Azaña (1880-1940): Plumas y Palabras (1930) and Una Política 1930-1932 (1932).The 2024 addendum contains correspondence from Claude Gernade Bowers to Terry Kuper Gray Kirker, the daughter of Theodore Fred Kuper. Also included are newspaper clippings, a photograph of Bowers, and autographed copies of Bowers' books Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932), Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution (1945) The Young Jefferson (1945), and My Mission to Spain (1954).

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Photographs of California and Nevada

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Consists of ten photographs and cyanotypes. Nevada subjects include the city and mines of Virginia City. California subjects include the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, the customhouse in Monterey, Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Azusa Railroad Station, and Azusa's Mina Street. Named photographers in this collection are Guy Giffen and James B. Giffen.

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Mansion and mountains

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A panoramic view of mountains from an unidentified mansion. There are tiled paths that cut across the lawn of the mansion, and a garden with three arched trellises.

photCL 402 (40054)

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Claude Gernade Bowers papers, (bulk 1932-1953)

Manuscripts

Primarily correspondence between Claude Gernade Bowers and lawyer Theodore Fred Kuper while Bowers was ambassador to Spain and Chile. Subjects covered include the Spanish Civil War, politics and government of the United States, and United States foreign relations. Also included are two typed manuscripts of Bowers's book My Mission to Spain (approximately 1939 and 1945); and a typed manuscript of My Life, published posthumously in 1962 as My Life: the Memoirs of Claude Bowers. There is also a small amount of publishing related correspondence, photographs, and two books by Spanish politician Manuel Azaña (1880-1940): Plumas y Palabras (1930) and Una Política 1930-1932 (1932). The 2024 addendum contains correspondence from Claude Gernade Bowers to Terry Kuper Gray Kirker, the daughter of Theodore Fred Kuper. Also included are newspaper clippings, a photograph of Bowers, and autographed copies of Bowers' books Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932), Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution (1945) The Young Jefferson (1945), and My Mission to Spain (1954).

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Fort Hill, Los Angeles

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View looking northwest towards Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the Downey Block building on Main Street in the foreground with the partially obscured sign "Crystal Palace Crockery, China Ware" and a sign in the window "J.W. Stump Law Office." The First Congregational Church is visible on New High Street with the Kimball Mansion directly to its right.

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