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Cabinet card portrait collection

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Description: 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.
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Production date: 1891-1907.
Call number: photPF 3900-3907
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

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