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Studio portrait photograph collection

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Description: 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.
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Production date

approximately 1880-1924.

Call number

photPF 3910-3929

Provenance

Acquired from various sources.

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