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Photographs of Wendell Phillips, John Muir, John Burroughs, Francis Browne, and others
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Portrait photographs of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Starr King, and others
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Carte-de-visite photographs of various individuals, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and poet, by E. Anthony, New York, approximately 1865. Other portraits: Maximilian I of Mexico and his wife Carlotta; Kalakaua, king of Hawaii; Dr. James McChesney and Emma McChesney; Dr. A. W. McNaughton; a group portrait of James Kinnivan, "Sawyer" and "Moore" (in Hong Kong); William H. Gardener; Adah Isaacs Menken (after a painting); three portraits of Elisha Oscar Crosby, American lawyer and politician; Dr. Lane; two portraits of Henry Huntly Haight, governor of California; Levi L. Willcutt; and three portraits of Thomas Starr King, American Universalist and Unitarian minister.
photPF 2860-2879
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Photographs of Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott and others
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Photographic portraits of the following individuals: Studio portrait of Jefferson Davis, seated (1880s); General Winfield Scott (1860?); engraving made from a photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady (1864); James Thomas Fields carte-de-visite; John Ericcson; E. J. Davison(?); stereograph of S. C. Willey (and family?) in front of residence, Campton Village, New Hampshire; "The Lecture Platform" - a composite of 45 portraits, identified on verso, published by the American Literary Bureau, agency for lecturers, readers and singers; and two people in front of the R. A. Brock home(?), Richmond, Virginia.
photPF 2150-2159
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Cartes-de-visite photographs of steamships, pioneers of Sonora, California and others
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A group of carte-de-visite photographs from the 1860s. Three views of steamships, including the USS Lancaster (1865); a photograph of an engraving of Joshua A. Norton (Emperor Norton); and portraits of General Tom Thumb, his wife and their baby; General Charles Decker, a man with dwarfism; Dr. Perez Snell and a group portrait of the Mandeville children: Gertey, John, and Jinnie (of Sonora); George Harrison and Benjamin Harrison of Chicago (not the US President); Dr. Andrew Fine (Oakland); Joseph Osmun and Judge Valentine (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Charles Buel; and Lena Simpson (died 1922), a Chinese woman who lived in Sonora and was known as "China Lena." She was married to Thomas Simpson, an African American man who lived in Tuolumne County.
photPF 2840-2859