Visual Materials

Portraits

Image not available

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1840s-1928.
Call number: photPF 60-69
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Tintype portraits of men, women, and children

Visual Materials

Tintype portraits of unidentified men, women, and children, approximately 1870s. The sitters are in studio settings; some of the portraits are hand-tinted. PhotPF 20237 depicts two young women dressed in white, seated and with their arms crossed; a male figure with his face partially obscured stands behind them. PhotPF 20243, a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man, is an example of a painted tintype. Photographers are unidentified.

photPF 20237-20244

Image not available

Miscellaneous portraits and scenes in the Americas

Visual Materials

Consists of eight photographs including a carte de visite, cabinet cards, and mounted photographs. photPF 2040 depicts a tally-ho with holiday makers in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, dated May 18, 1902. photPF 2041 is a photograph of what is labeled as "the largest herd" of reindeer in Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales, dated 1911. photPF 2041a is a portrait of Confederate general James Longstreet. photPF 2042 is a view of a street in León, Nicaragua. photPF 2043 is an autographed portrait of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to Max Farrand, the first director of The Huntington Library. photPF 2044 is a group photo labeled "Taft Reception Committee" with unidentified sitters in an unidentified location; a handwritten note on the verso notes October 1909. photPF 2045 is a group portrait of the original locators of Buffalo Hump. All are identified by first and middle initial and last name. Charlie Robbins, one of the most well known of the gold miners out of this group. photPF 2046 contains a portrait of Elizabeth Yount Davis Sullivan enclosed in a folder with a handwritten summary of her life and family, which is also included as a separate typed transcript.

photPF 2040-2046

Image not available

Portraits

Visual Materials

Consists of seven photographs, with some duplicates. Portraits are of Tiburcio Vasquez, John Wilkes Booth, Augustus Simon Bixby, Sir Edmund Gosse and Thomas Hardy.

photPF 54-59

Image not available

Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

Visual Materials

Portrait photographs of members of the Del Valle family of Southern California and friends taken by various Los Angeles and San Francisco photographers in the late 19th century. Portraits include Mrs. Ignacio Del Valle and Reginaldo del Valle (photPF 20168); Isabella Del Valle, photograph by Taber (photPF 20169); a group portrait of the Del Valle family by F. G. Schumacher (photPF 20170); Maria de Jesus Sue Wilson Shorb, daughter of Don Benito Wilson, photograph by Morse (photPF 20171); Edward L. Watkins, photograph by V. Wolfenstein (photPF 20172); a group portrait of the Watkins family, 1890, by Westervelt (photPF 20173); William Sanford Banning, as a child (photPF 20174); the Newmark family, photograph by Elite (photPF 20175); and a photograph of Ignacio J. F. Forster as a baby, photograph by Marceau (photPF 20175).

photPF 20168-20175

Image not available

Portraits of the Hawaiian royal family

Visual Materials

4 card photographs with studio portraits of members of the Hawaiian royal family: Emma, Queen Consort, standing beside a table wearing a sash, crown, and a dress with a long train (photPF 21102); a half-length portrait of David Kalakaua (photPF 21103); a half-length portrait of Queen Liliuokalani (photPF 21104); and John Owen Dominis, Prince Consort, wearing a straw hat and standing against a studio backdrop of a tree-lined river (photPF 21104).

photPF 21102-21105

Image not available

Carte-de-visite portraits of James Fenimore Cooper and family members

Visual Materials

Carte-de-visite studio portraits of American author James Fenimore Cooper (photPF 20815), his brother Levi Cooper (photPF 20816, 20818), and his sister Anna Cooper (photPF 20817), two photographers identified on cartes-de-visite versos: J.H. Abbott of Albany, New York (photPF 20815) and Higgins & Terril of Elyria, Ohio (photPF 20817).

photPF 20815-20818

Portraits

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Tintype portraits of men, women, and children

Miscellaneous portraits and scenes in the Americas

Portraits

Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

Portraits of the Hawaiian royal family

Carte-de-visite portraits of James Fenimore Cooper and family members