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Studio portraits of unidentified residents of Los Angeles
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Studio portraits of unidentified residents of Los Angeles
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Carte-de-visite portraits of unidentified men, women, and children taken by some of the pioneer photographers in Los Angeles, California, including V. Wolfenstein, H. Penelon, W. N. Tuttle, and Tuttle & Parker's. The sitters provide excellent examples of costumes of the era.
photPF 5836-5841
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Portraits of Rose family members and horse
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Includes tintype of a horse with an African American trainer (Item 53); a carte-de-visite by Penelon & Addis (Item 46); a view of Sunny Slope house of Wachtels by A.E. Nichols & Co. (Item 49); a view of Maude and Daisy Rose in their bedroom in the Grand Avenue House by Howland and Chadwick (Item 50).
photCL 156
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Albert B. Hayward Family album
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76 photographs from a disbound album related to Dr. Albert B. Hayward, an early resident of Los Angeles, California, dating from the 1860s-1870s. The collection consists primarily of carte-de-visite portraits of Hayward's family and associates, including two portraits of Los Angeles photographer William Godfrey. In addition, there are five of the earliest carte-de-visite views of Los Angeles, circa 1868, as well as an exterior view of the residence of Hayward at 52 Aliso Street. Many of the sitters are unidentified, but they provide excellent examples of clothing of the era. Identified photographers include William Godfrey; the Sunbeam Gallery; Penelon & Co.; H.T. Payne; Martin & Tuttle; Valentin Wolfstein; Tuttle & Lee; Flanders & Godfrey's; and Bradley & Rulofson.
photCL 405
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Portrait of Ignacio F. Cornel[?]
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Carte-de-visite head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man, possibly Ignacio F. Coronel, though the sitter in the photography has not been positively attributed thus far.
photPF 5832
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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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Carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Pawnee Indian men, Nebraska
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A group of eight carte-de-visite studio photographs of individual Pawnee men and one view of several tipis with white men standing nearby. All taken by photographer H. Fish of Fremont, Nebraska or Jackson Bros., Omaha. Also in this folder, two carte-de-visite photographs of hydraulic mining ("Sluice Flumes" and "Timbuctoo Diggings") in Yuba County, California by Lawrence & Houseworth.
photPF 2900-2919