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Portraits of unidentified children

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Description: Consists of seven mounted photographs and cabinet cards of various children. Some are single portraits, and others are group portraits. Photographers include Tonkin of San Francisco, Pollock, E. L. Eaton, and Steckel of Los Angeles.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1800s-1930.
Call number: photPF 290-296
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of August 1993.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Portraits (miscellaneous)

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Consists of nine photographs. Seven are single portraits of Charles F. Lummis, Charles P. Duane, Conrad Speece, Asa Haynes, and Edwin Doty in addition to a snapshot of Robinson Jeffers and Albert Bender and a group photograph labeled Captain Jack and his Modocs.

photPF 11-19

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Cabinet card portrait collection

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Contents: Leland Stanford (1824-1893) published by C.M. Bell (Washington, D.C.); Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Published by James Notman Studio (Boylston St., Boston); Mr. George Steckel (Los Angeles, California), photographer (1889);G.C. Holloway (d.1901) published by George Steckel (Los Angeles, California); William Rutherford Mead (1862-1927) published by George Steckel (Los Angeles, California); Major William Hartshorn Bonsall (1846-1905); Walton Hall Daggett, Rector of the Church of the Angels [Kreider 1945]; John M. Gilmore, brother to Mary Gilmore Barnum, published by LouisThors (San Francisco, California). The majority of the portraits contain Olive Percival's annotations. These items may have been transferred from the Oliver Percival collection with one photograph being from the Samuel L. Kreider papers.

photPF 3900-3907

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Portraits of unidentified children

Visual Materials

This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.

photCL 56

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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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Portraits

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Consists of seven photographs, with some duplicates. Portraits are of Tiburcio Vasquez, John Wilkes Booth, Augustus Simon Bixby, Sir Edmund Gosse and Thomas Hardy.

photPF 54-59

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Portrait of unidentified young bearded man

Visual Materials

Head-and-shoulders portrait of unidentified young bearded man on mount with printed text: "Oscar Foss' Enameled Cards, 606 Kearny St., cor. Sacramento, San Francisco.

photPF 20224

Portraits of unidentified children

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