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Description: Consists of seven photographs, with some duplicates. Portraits are of Tiburcio Vasquez, John Wilkes Booth, Augustus Simon Bixby, Sir Edmund Gosse and Thomas Hardy.
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Production date: approximately 1800s-1936.
Call number: photPF 54-59
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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Portraits

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Consists of ten photographs and one envelope of accompanying correspondence for photPF 65. Portrait sitters include Sir Edmund Gosse, Andre Gide, Isaac L. Requa, Cecil Rhodes, General John Augustus Sutter, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Sidney P. Edgerton, and a member of the Jayhawkers of 1849.

photPF 60-69

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Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators

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Consists of 88 photographs, including snapshots and carte-de-visite photographs. Union sitters include Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, William Dennison, John Hay, Joseph Holt, William P. Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch, John G. Nicholay, William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Miss Katherine Chase Sprague, John Palmer Usher, and Gideon Welles. Confederate sitters include Alexander Stephens, Linton Stephens, and John C. Breckinridge. Additional portraits of the Lincoln kidnapping and assassination conspirators are also included: Samuel B. Arnold, Georg A. Atzerodt, John Wilkes Booth, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell (Lewis Payne, or Paine) Edward Spangler, and Mary E. Surratt. Also included are three portraits of Boston Corbett, the Union sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth. Some of these items are noted as reproduced from Frederick H. Meserve holdings.

photPF 1870-1909

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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.

photPF 3520-3549

Album of Abraham Lincoln portraits, Lincoln Family, and events around his life

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A leather album with brass hinges containing cartes-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln and events related to his life and death. There are images of Mary, Robert, and Thomas Lincoln. There are images of the political men of the time including Stephen Douglas, Frank P. Blair, and Thomas Eckert. There are also images of the assassin John Wilkes Booth.

photCL 40

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Portraits of Civil War military officers and other individuals

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Consists of 167 photographs including copy prints, cabinet cards, and carte-de-visites. Sitters include both Confederate and Union supporters. Notable portrait sitters are Alexander Sandor Asboth, Henry Watkins Allen, Edward Dickinson Baker, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard), John Cabell Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jefferson Davis, Abram Duryée, David Glasgow Farragut, Jessie Benton Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Henry Wager Halleck, David Hunter, Philip Kearny, Henry Warner Slocum, Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Henry Lane, Robert Edward Lee, Berian Magoffin, James King Fenno Mansfield, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, George Brinton McClellan, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Gustavus Woodson Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Stoneman, William Lowndes Yancey. Photographers include Matthew Brady and Edward Anthony.

photPF 2495-2619

Mandan Indian Me-ra-pa-ra-pa or Lance

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Cartes-de-visite photographs include: two different portraits of John Wilkes Booth, seated and holding cane, approximately 1862-1865; portrait of Harry Love, head of the California Rangers, by Bradley & Rulofson; portrait of Seth Kinman, California hunter and trapper (1864) by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries. Also cabinet card photographs of: Native American man identified as "Mandan Indian" on verso, (Me-Ra-Pa-Ra-Pa or Lance) by Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories; portrait of Donaciano Vigil (?) by H. T. Hiester, Santa Fe, New Mexico; portraits of Henry W. Longfellow and John G. Whittier, both by Charles Taber & Co., New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. Lastly, a photograph of two men outside the H. S. Van DeMark Real Estate office by Corliss & Bancroft, New York, and a photograph of an unidentified Japanese garden at a residence in Hollywood.

photPF 1545

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