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Description: Consists of eleven images. Sitters and subjects include General George Henry Thomas (1816-1870), Captain William Horton Smyley, Archie Hoxsey and his flights, Walter Brookins, Albert Henry Hoyt, Albert Henry, Mary Emma Hoyt, and Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860s-1910s.
Call number: photPF 950-969
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, 1973-1943.
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.

Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

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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

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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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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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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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Portraits (miscellaneous)

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Consists of nine photographs. Seven are single portraits of Charles F. Lummis, Charles P. Duane, Conrad Speece, Asa Haynes, and Edwin Doty in addition to a snapshot of Robinson Jeffers and Albert Bender and a group photograph labeled Captain Jack and his Modocs.

photPF 11-19

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Miscellaneous portraits and scenes in the Americas

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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

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