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Studio portrait photographs annotated by Olive Percival
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Sitters include: Florence Dunham; Frederick Russell Burnham; Princess Philip of Saxe Coburg; H.M. Queen of the Belgians; Theodore Parker; William Cullen Bryant; Lucretia Mott; H.I.M. The Empress Frederick; E.M. Fowler.
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The royal album
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Album containing 20 carte-de-visite portraits of members of the British royal family taken by photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall and others in the early 1860s. Includes Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Princess Beatrice, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Leopold, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Mary of Cambridge.
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Studio and other portrait photographs
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The Olive Percival Collection of Photographs contains approximately 875 photographs of California and Mexico, chiefly cyanotype snapshots and gelatin silver prints of locations in Los Angeles and environs and Mexico City, taken chiefly by Olive Percival (1869-1945) from approximately 1880-1941; many of the photographs contain captions written on versos by Percival. The photographs of California depict San Pedro scenes; Chinatowns in Los Angeles and San Francisco; exterior and interior views of Percival's home, collections, and garden; and cemeteries in Los Angeles. The collection also includes two sepia portraits of Percival as a young woman; one photograph of Percival with her mother; images of Indian basket collections that she used in writing articles; and photographs depicting various people and locations, chiefly in Los Angeles and environs, taken by Percival and by commercial photographers, including a set of studio portraits featuring various sitters. Photographs of Mexico depict various views of Mexico City and other areas of Mexico, including Juarez; Toluca; Guadalupe; Teotihuacan; Tocuba; Vera Cruz; Texcoco; Tlaxcola; and other locations.
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Collection of miscellaneous Northern California photographs and portraits
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The collection of images include a botanical specimen photograph card (sarcodes sanguniea torrey or snow plant of the Sierra), a U.S. Army encampment scene (Sacramento), portraits, and buildings. Among the photographs are roof tops (San Jose), the Santa Barbara Mission capturing priests in the corridor, Auburn Poultry Producer (store facade), William Chapman Ralston (1826-1875) San Francisco Banker, Miss Adams (Mormon actress), Mary Anderson's farm (Oakland), and a postcard photograph of First Bank in Northern California at Coloma. The Auburn Poultry photograph is noted as being a gift of Collis Halladay (1893) and a majority of the photographs cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
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Studio portraits of Native Americans of New Mexico and scenes of Santa Fe, New Mexico and surrounding territory
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24 cabinet cards with portraits, city scenes, and a few landscape views depicting Indian camps and the surrounding countryside. The 8 studio portraits include Native American men, women, and children in both traditional and Western dress and include Apache and Pueblo Indians, with individuals from the Tesuque Pueblo. The city scenes show locales in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and one depicts a Catholic religious demonstration on a Santa Fe street. There are also 4 views of burros. Most views are unidentified, but some contain printed or handwritten titles: Apache Girl - Indian School (photPF 20751); 229. Pueblo Senora from Tesuque (photPF 20754); 228. Pueblo Indian and daughter (photPF 20755); College Street, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20764); Territorial Capitol, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20765); Our Lady of the Rosary [Santa Fe] (photPF 20767); House of Representatives (photPF 20767); 215. A medley: scenes in Santa Fe, N.M. [of burros], May 1887 (photPF 20772); Guadalupe Church (photPF 20773).
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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Gage Collection of Photographs
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The collection consists of 4 single portraits of American politician Henry T. Gage, his wife, Frances Rains Gage, and his daughter Lucille Gage, and a view of the Gage residence in Bell Gardens. Taped to the reverse of the photograph of the Gage residence is a photographic reproduction of the boundaries of Rancho San Antonio.
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