Cabinet card portrait collection

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  Studio portrait photographs annotated by Olive Percival

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  Sitters include: Leland Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; George Steckel; E.C. Holloway; William Mead; William H. Bonsall; John Gilmore.

  photCL 217

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  Portraits of unidentified children

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  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.

  photPF 290-296

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  The Marshall Monument cabinet card

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  The photograph depicts the 10 foot six inch bronze statue of James W. Marshall (1810-1885) atop a 31 foot high granite monument erected in 1886. Marshall, a millwright to Captain John A. Sutter is credited with being the first Anglo settler to discover gold in Coloma, California at Sutter's Mill in 1848. The verso of the cabinet card contains a printed history of the monument along with the panel inscriptions in gold font against a black background. Also noted in pencil near the right bottom corner, "Hardy 1945."

  photPF 3829

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  [Card photograph with four portraits of Ruth Montgomery, toddler]

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  This collection contains 152 photographs of the family of Leonard John Rose (1827-1899), the Rose family's ranch and vineyard "Sunny Slope" in San Gabriel, California, their residences, and horses owned by the family, chiefly dating from the late 19th century. Many of the photographs are cabinet card studio portraits of family members, especially the children of L. J. and Amanda Rose, including Nina Rose Wachtel (and her husband John V. Wachtel), Guy Rose, Mabel Rose Dixon, Maud Rose Easton. Many of the card photographs have imprints of Los Angeles photography studios including Steckel & Lamson and T.G. Schumacher. Among the photographs of the Sunny Slope Farm are stereographs by W.M. Godfrey (Volume 1, Items 13a and 14-14a) and stereographs and unmounted prints by Carleton Watkins (Album 1, Items 17-29 and 75 and 76).

  photCL 156

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Portrait Photographs

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  This collection consists of 809 photographs of individual and group portraits, dating from circa 1850s-1997 (bulk 1860s-1930s), that formed part of the Historical Society of Southern California Photo Archives. It is a reference collection and includes images of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angeles and Southern California figures from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images in a variety of formats that were created by a number of well-known California photographers. These include James B. Blanchard, Boyé, Curtis Studios, George N. Dewey, Edouart and Son, Garden City Foto Co., William M. Godfrey, A.C. Golsh, Hayward and Muzzall, Fred Hartsook, Hiller and Mott, Theodore C. Marceau, Francis Parker (as Parker and Co., Parker and Hasselman, and Parker's Photographic Parlors), Payne Stanton and Co., Henri Penelon, Steve A. Rendall, Frank G. Schumacher, William Shew, John Pitcher Spooner, George Steckel, Isaiah West Taber, William Nutting Tuttle (as Tuttle and Lee, and Tuttle and Co.), O.E. Tyler, Davidson Roby Weaver, Michael A. Wesner, James D. Westervelt (also in partnership with Charles J. Coules), and Valentin Wolfenstein. The Griggs portraits depict young women in various settings; the Kathryn Murdoch gift is primarily of album pages with snapshots of local sites in Los Angeles.

  photCL 400 volume 31

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  Studio portrait photograph collection

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  Contents: Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) by "A.L. Coburn"; Julie Bracken Wendt (1871-1942), sculptor; William Wendt (1865-1946) American landscape painter; Kate Fowler (1888-1982), philanthropist, daughter of Eldridge M. Fowler; Mary L. Jones (1865-1946), Los Angeles Librarian; Margaret Brewer (Mrs. Eldridge M.) Fowler (1863-1931) Philanthropist; Jordan Quimu Lummis (1900-1991); Rachel Burer; Elizabeth Waggoner (1874-1966), artist; Eldridge Merick Fowler (1833-1904) timber baron; Florence R. Dunham portrait by Schumacker (Los Angeles); Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947) American scout and adventurer; Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg, daughter of Leopold II (Princess Louise)(1858-1924); Queen of the Belgians, Marie Henriette of Austria (1836-1902), wife of King Leopold II; Theodore Parker (1810-1860) taken at Francis Powell Studio (Boston), reformer and abolitionist; William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), American romantic poet, journalist, and editor; Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), American Quaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist; Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Empress Frederick, wife of Emperor Frederick III (1841-1901). The portraits include annotations written by Olive Percival, a few are addressed to her personally, and may have been transferred from photCL 217 or mssHM 79260-79378.

  photPF 3910-3929