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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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  Portraits

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  Consists of ten photographs. Portrait sitters include John C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont at the Freemont Tree, Benjamin West (of Rochelle, Illinois), General Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Ole Bull, Paul du Chaillu, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Daniel Boone, Henry Durant, and George Stoneman.

  photPF 80-89

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  Miscellaenous portraits and other photographs

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  Consists of 18 photographs of people, places, and drawings of places. Some contain annotations written on the verso. Portrait sitters include: Brigadier General Oscar F. Long, Oscar Sutro, Charles Horace Mayo (with autograph), William James Mayo (with autograph), George G. Spurr, Captain William Ransom Johnson Pegram, R. A. Brock, Jr., Thomas Wallace More, and Rosa D'Erina. Locations depicted in photographs are: a drawing of Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, the National Lincoln Monument in Springfield, Illinois, Ford's Theater, Marietta Historical Museum in Ohio, the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and Eaton, Pennsylvania. One image is also a film still from an early Hollywood film, possibly Louis Chaudet's "A Political Tramp."

  photPF 2000-20019

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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

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  Brier, James Welch. To Mecum, Charles Bert. Grass Valley, Calif

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  The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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