Guide to the Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870

Estudillo family portraits. BANC PIC 1973.072

Abstract

1 item selected from the Collection of photographs relating mainly to Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo and the Estudillo family.

The Collection of photographs relating mainly to Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo and the Estudillo family consists of approximately 230 photographs spanning the dates of ca. 1850-ca. 1950. There are two parts to the collection, each with its own library accession number (BANC PIC 1973.072 and BANC PIC 1967.033.) The collection includes photographs of Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo, and perhaps of the Peralta family, both prominent early families in the San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. Includes portraits, residences of these early California families in San Leandro and El Cerrito, and family snapshots. Unidentified tintypes and cartes de visite from Hornitos, Calif., one tintype of a male Peralta family member, and snapshots and portraits of friends of Ynez Estudillo also present. Also included are a view of the Pesdorff [?] ranch in the Hayward vicinity, views of Mt. Tamalpais, family ranch at Cupertino, and amateur theatricals on the Dougherty Ranch at Pleasanton. Also includes are images relating to the Estudillo family and others related by marriage or associated with them. Includes Guillermo Castro and son; Elice (Eliza) Cushing; Mrs. Charles H. Cushing (Maria Dolores Estudillo?); John Nugent and family; and John B. Ward and family.

Processing Information

UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.

Provenance

Collection assembled by Margaret Schlichtmann, in the course of editing for publication the journals of the Estudillo family.

[Miss Eliza Cushing (Elice Cushing), sister of Charles H. Cushing.] [ca. 1850] BANC PIC 1973.072:002--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Broadbent, Sammuel (1810-1880) , American, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.8 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, wearing jewelry (earrings and brooch) and a shawl.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On mat (LL): S. Broadbent. [Sammuel Broadbent of NY].

Accompanying note (handwritten, modern, by collector): This is Eliza Cushing, reputedly the favorite sister of Charles Henry Cushing who married Dolores or 'Lola' Estudillo of San Leandro in 1864. Because Eliza dis- liked her name, she chose to be known as Elice. This name was given to one of the Cushing's daughters, who never married. This likeness was acquired from Miss Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo. [signed] Margaret E. Schlichtmann.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container. Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.4 cm. (image package).

Provenance

Given to Margaret Schlictmann by Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

Cased photographic portraits from the Margaret Schlichtmann collection. BANC PIC 1978.105

Abstract

This collection of cased photographic portraits consists of 4 daguerreotypes, 2 tintypes, and 1 albumen print spanning the dates of ca. 1850-ca. 1870. They are all unidentified portraits assembled by a collector, presumably from various sources.

Provenance

From the photograph collection of Margaret Schlichtmann.

[Unidentified woman.] [ca. 1858] BANC PIC 1978.105:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; ninth plate, visible image 5 x 3.9 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a woman wearing a dress with a horizontal, off-the-shoulder neckline.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

GENUINE / UNION CASE. / IMPROVED / Fine and Burnished / Hinge. / S. PECH & CO., / MANUFACTURERS.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: plain oval with patterned edge. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - Two Birds, Elaboate Scroll/Floral (Krainik no. 582). Material: thermoplastic. Dimensions: octagonal 7.5 x 6.5 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: S. Peck & Company.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified woman.] [ca. 1861] BANC PIC 1978.105:002--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; ninth plate, visible image 5 x 3.8 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a woman wearing jewelry (brooch).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat: Dean & Emerson Worcester Mass No 86 / J. Dean Patent Dec 24 1861.

Label: Holmes, Booth & Haydens' / Daguerreotype, / Photographic / and Ambrotype Goods, / Of every description; (handwritten, verso): Sunday Evening / Nov 6, 1870.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric (Krainik no. 433). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.5 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified man.] [ca. 1855?] BANC PIC 1978.105:003--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 7 x 5.6 cm.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark (LL): No. 40 [indicating silver content].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: oval. Preserver: decorative with floral motif.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Birds on a Ring (Rinhart no. 85). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif. Notes: residue from sticker on back (similar to item no. 4).

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Seated unidentified woman.] [ca. 1860-1867] BANC PIC 1978.105:004--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 6.5 x 5 cm.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat: Waterbury Conn. No. 825[?] Scovill [ ].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative nonpareil. Preserver: decorative with oval motif.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - oval in square. Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.3 x 8 cm. Pad: red flocked material simulating velvet (unusual), with geometric motif. Notes: label with number 8 affixed to exterior.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified man, woman, and child.] [ca. 1857] BANC PIC 1978.105:005--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Burnham, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 9.5 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of seated man and woman. The boy, who is held by the woman, stands holding a horse pull toy.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat (LR): Burnham [probably one of four Burnhams working in Maine: Asa M., George W., John U.P., or T.P Burnham].

On plate (in red crayon, verso): 1.50.

Plate mark (UR): [Circle in sixths], [lamb bearing cross], 40.

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co. / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L.P. & Co., / Are the sole proprietors and only / legal Manufactures of / Union Cases, - with the - / Embracing Riveted Hinge. - Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: nonpareil. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral / geometric (Krainik no. 64). Material: dark brown thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.6 cm. Pad: purple velvet with embossed motif. Notes: [Littlefield & Parsons & Co.]

Subjects

Women

Mothers & children

Men

Infants

Families

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Three unidentified boys.] [ca. 1850] BANC PIC 1978.105:006--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 8.9 x 6.2 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of three boys. The middle is seated, while the others stand on each side.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: ornate rectangular (double elliptical with sides slightly curved). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - grapes, fruit, birds and nest. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.3 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Teenagers

Families

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Unidentified man.] [ca. 1880] BANC PIC 1978.105:007--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen (in quarter plate case); visible image 8.8 x 6.3 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a man with a mustache.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

In case well (stamped in shape of a circle): A.P. Critchlow & Co., / Manufactures of / Daguerreotype Cases. / A.P.C. & Co. / are the Original Inventors of the / Composition for the Union Case, / (so called,) including all the various shades / of color and fineness of texture pecu- / liar to their manufacture and of the / Embracing Riveted hinges, thus / securing them from breaking out / as do others that are inserted / with or without a / metal brace. / - / Patented Applied for.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: card photograph, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Sir Roger deCoverly and the Gypsies/The Gypsy Fortune Teller (Krainik no. 29 & Rinhart no. 43). Material: brown thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.8 x 10.4 cm. Pad: purple velvet with embossed motif. Notes: A.P. Critchlow & Co. Notes: Case dates from ca. 1855.

General Note

Photograph is a cut-down cabinet card.

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified man with blue cloak and revolver.] [ca. 1842-1848] BANC PIC 1965.043--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype, hand colored; sixth plate, visible image 6.9 x 5.5 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, seated, with gun in belt at waist.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: Face and cloak hand colored. Mat: textured dome topped (elliptical).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of The Delicate Roses (Rinhart no. 125). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 10 x 8 cm. Pad: red silk.

Subjects

Pioneers

Firearms

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Carolyn Fraser Martin (1859-1966) as a small girl.] [ca. 1861] BANC PIC 1967.048--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.5 x 5.3 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of a toddler wearing a ring, and seated with her arm resting on a book on a table.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Printed in case well: Genuine Union Case, / Improved / Fine Guilt and Burnish / ed Hinge. / S. Peck's Patent, / Oct 3d, 1854 / H. Halverson's Patent, / Aug. 7th 1855, / Assigned to S. Peck.

On edge of mat: Holmes, Booth and Hayden's Superfine / Waterbury Conn. No 12.

Label (handwritten by collector Margaret Schlichtmann): Carolyn Fraser [Martin] Born: March 12, 1859. Died: July 21, 1966; (in later hand) From 67/62

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: ruby glass with face, skirt and jewelry [ring] slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: Birds at the Fountain (Krainik no. 172). Material: thermoplastic. Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.5 cm. Notes: S. Peck and Comapny, Oct 3, 1854.

General Note

Same mat as 1975.058:006 and :007.

For another portrait of Carolyn Fraser Martin, see BANC PIC 19xx.338--CASE.

Provenance

Bancroft Portrait Source File indicates Gift of Milton Eisner (or Mrs. Eisner), no date. However, accompanying note indicates that it is from collector Margaret Schlictmann, received with the Carolyn Fraser Martin autograph album and other papers (BANC MSS 67/62c).

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

Photographs from the Schütt family papers. BANC PIC 1975.060

Abstract

4 items selected from the Photographs from the Schütt family papers.

The Photographs from the Schütt family papers consist of 10 items (portraits) spanning the dates of ca. 1845-ca. 1880.

Biographical Note

August Martin Schütt was a German immigrant, a resident of Oakland, California, and was also involved in mining in Nevada.

Provenance

Transferred from the Schutt family papers (BANC MSS 75/47 cp).

[August Martin Schütt and his grandfather Peter Christian Schütt.] [ca. 1840's] BANC PIC 1975.060:01--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; one-third plate?, visible image 7.5 x 6.3 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of a boy and a man seated next to each other. The older man has his arm around the boy.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On plate (verso, adhering it to mat) scraps of paper have letterpress type in German.

Label (printed, modern): Gift & Frame Shop / 2327 / Linne / Telegraph / Ave / Berkeley 0557 California.

Note (handwritten, modern): A.M. Schutt, 1839-1922 & his grandfather Peter Christian Schutt, 1759- .

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: octagonal paper. Cover glass: replaced glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: glass, paper mat. Dimensions: 12.8 x 11 cm. Notes: modern wall frame encapsulation, with modern leather pouch.

General Note

European (German) image.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Families

Men

Children

Boys

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Catherine Joeckel Schütt and Grandfather Joeckel in a top hat.] [ca. 1858] BANC PIC 1975.060:02--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.4 x 5.2 cm.

Content/Description

Catherine Joeckel as a girl, standing next to her seated grandfather.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing, face and jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: plain rectangular (double elliptical). Cover glass: added glass under original. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - Birds and the Fountain (Rinhart no. 93). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed peacock motif. Notes: blackened well (ambrotype case).

Subjects

Girls

Children

Men

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Catherine Schütt.] [ca. 1865] BANC PIC 1975.060:03--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; ninth plate, oval, visible image 5.8 x 4.7 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, wearing jewelry (brooch, earrings and watch chain).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well: 21 November / 1847 / [in another hand:] + 24 Nov / 1912 [presumably birth and death dates of Catherine Schutt.]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Material: purple cloth. Dimensions: oval 7.4 x 6.2 cm. Pad: white silk.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

[Catherine Joeckel Schütt (Mrs. August Martin Schütt).] [ca. 1860] BANC PIC 1975.060:04--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 6.5 x 5.3 cm.

Content/Description

Waist length portrait, wearing jewelry (earrings and brooch).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Stamped on mat: Booth and Hayden's Superfine Waterbury Conn. No 43.

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L., P. & Co., are the sole proprietors and only legal Manu- / factures of Union Cases, with the Embracing Riveted Hinge. / Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: patriotic - Union and Constitution (Krainik no. 110). Material: brown thermoplastic. Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif. Notes: case might not be original to image. It dates from mid-to-late 1850s.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

Portraits of George Sterling family members from the George Sterling papers. BANC PIC 1963.010

Abstract

1 item selected from the Portraits of George Sterling family members from the George Sterling papers.

The Portraits of George Sterling family members from the George Sterling papers consist of 6 items dating from ca. 1865 to the early 20th century. The collection consists of portraits of relatives of the San Francisco poet: Flora Sterling, George Ansel Sterling (his grandfather), a tintype of Mrs. George Ansel Sterling, James Sterling, and Mary Parker Havens Sterling. (The Bancroft Library holds many other photographs of or related to poet George Sterling, cataloged separately and in numerous other collections.)

Provenance

Transferred from the George Sterling papers (BANC MSS C-H 60).

[Mrs. George Ansel Sterling seated and reading a book.] [1865] BANC PIC 1963.010:004--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; quarter plate (roughly), visible image 10 x 6 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length, seated portrait of a woman reading a book. She is wearing lace (on her head) and a shawl.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Scratched on plate (verso): Mrs. G.A. Sterling.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: face slightly hand colored.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

The Irving and Jean Stone collection of Jack London portraits. BANC PIC 1995.061

Abstract

1 item selected from the Irving and Jean Stone collection of Jack London portraits.

The Irving and Jean Stone collection of Jack London portraits consists of 139 photographic prints dating from ca. 1880-ca. 1915. It consists of studio portraits and snapshots of London himself, along with some family snapshots.

Provenance

From the Irving Stone collection.

[Jack London, age nine] [ca. 1885] BANC PIC 1995.061:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype, hand colored; whole plate, visible image 20.6 x 16.4 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait as a boy, wearing a brown suit.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Note (verso): Jack London . Age 9

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat. Plate: hand colored. Mat: paper (removed and sleeved separately.) Cover glass: added glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Authors

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Portraits

Pictorial items from the Otto Struve collection. BANC PIC 1967.022

Abstract

1 item selected from the Pictorial items from the Otto Struve collection.

The Pictorial items from the Otto Struve collection consist of 4 items (1 drawing, 2 photographic prints, and 1 daguerreotype) spanning the dates of ca. 1850-ca. 1895. The collection consists of an unidentified daguerreotype by J.E. Mayall, London; a pencil drawing of a building associated with the Struve family; a portrait of elderly Otto Struve (grandfather of the astronomer?); and a photo of the Struve family home in Kharkovi, Russia.

Additional portraits cataloged as: Portraits of Otto and Wilhelm Struve from the Otto Struve papers (BANC PIC 1967.004-- POR).

Provenance

Transferred from the Otto Struve papers (BANC MSS 67/135).

Genre/Format

various

[Unidentified man.] [ca. 1846-1852] BANC PIC 1967.022:001--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Mayall, John Edwin, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; two-thirds plate, visible image 10 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a man wearing a high collar. One hand is tucked into the front of his coat.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Stamped in gold on case: DAGUERREOTYPE INSTITUTION / J.E. MAYALL / 433 WEST STRAND. [London].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate (only).

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: geometric - photographer's name. Material: red leather over wood. Dimensions: 13.8 x 11.5 cm. Notes: case fragment only, with photographer's name stamped in gold. Plate housed separately.

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

Gladys Tilden photograph collection. BANC PIC 1989.024

Abstract

6 items selected from the Gladys Tilden photograph collection.

The Gladys Tilden photograph collection consists of approximately 550 items (chiefly photographic prints) spanning the dates of ca. 1870-ca. 1950. It includes an album compiled by Elizabeth Cole Tilden which contains mainly portraits and views from 1873-1896. Many identified family members (mostly Cole family), family homes (including one with a windmill at 1545 Webster St., Oakland), other views of Oakland, Los Angeles, and scenes from places around the globe (England, New Zealand, etc.) Other materials include portraits of Elizabeth Delano Cole Tilden, her mother Elizabeth Smith Cole, Douglas Tilden, and a group portrait of Jack London, William Alley Tilley, Douglas Tilden, and Granville Redmond taken at Glen Ellen. Also includes sculpture and photographs of sculpture, original fashion design drawings by Tilden, portraits of Tilden's friends (accompanied by clippings), views from Tilden's buying excursions in Europe, and other related items. Gladys Tilden was the daughter of California sculptor Douglas Tilden.

Processing Information

UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.

Provenance

Transferred from the Gladys Tilden papers (BANC MSS 89/229 c).

[Unidentified woman.] [ca. 1860?] BANC PIC 1989.024:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 4.8 x 3.8 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading, half length portrait of a woman. Her hands are clasped together at her waist.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On mat: Cooke & Emerson's Patent Applied for / Providence, R.I. No. 121.

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L., P. & Co., are the sole / proprietors and only / legal Manu- / factures of / Union Cases, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. / Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum on backing glass (in the style of Cutting's Patent); face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative nonpareil. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - Scroll (Krainik no. 525). Material: thermoplastic. Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.5 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Littlefield, Parsons & Co.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Profile portrait of a young woman]. [ca. 1857] BANC PIC 1989.024:002--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 4.4 x 3.2 cm.

Content/Description

Half length profile portrait of a woman wearing a white lace collar with small gold brooch.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L., P. & Co., are the sole / Proprietors and only legal Manu- / factures of Union Cases, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. / Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Blind stamped on mat: Holmes Booth & Hayden's Superfine / Waterbury Conn. No [?].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with painted (varnish?) backing; face, jewelry and buttons slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - medallion (Krainik no. 431). Material: thermoplastic. Dimensions: 7 x 6.5 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Littlefield, Parsons & Co.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Elizabeth Delano Cole Tilden wearing brown coat.] [ca. 1878] BANC PIC 1989.024:003--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photographic print: crystoleum, hand colored; oval 11 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of a girl standing in front of a stone balustrade prop. She is wearing a blue dress, and a white hat with a pink ribbon.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (printed, verso of frame): BROOKS / Frame & Art Studio / 10931 WEYBURN AVENUE / WESTWOOD.VILLAGE [1946].

Note (handwritten, modern, on paper covering, verso of frame): Elizabeth Delano Cole Tilden born Dec. 28, 1873 San Francisco, Calif photographed at about age 5 (photo developed on convex glass and colored) [sic: not accurate description of process.]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: convex oval glass, albumen print[?], backing paper[?], mat. Mat: red velvet.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: wood. Dimensions: 23 x 18 5 cm.

General Note

Translucent photoprint (waxed or varnished), adhered to inside of convex glass, with color applied to back

Subjects

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Elizabeth Delano Cole Tilden wearing pink sash.] [ca. 1878] BANC PIC 1989.024:004--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photographic print: crystoleum, hand colored; oval 11 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Full length, standing portrait of a girl wearing a large pink sash at the waist and pink tights. She is leaning against a stone railing back drop.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Note (handwritten, modern): Elizabeth Delano Cole Tilden born Dec. 28, 1873 San Francisco, Calif. photographed at about age 5 (photo developed in convex glass & colored).

Frame label (printed, modern): BROOKS Frame & Art Studio 10931 WEYBURN AVENUE / WESTWOOD VILLAGE.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: convex glass, albumen print[?], and backing paper[?].

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: wood. Dimensions: 23 x 18.5 cm.

General Note

Translucent photoprint (waxed or varnished), adhered to inside of convex glass, with color applied to back. Backing glass also present.

Subjects

Girls

Children

[Lizzie Smith Cole (Mrs. L.G.[?] Cole.] [187-?] BANC PIC 1989.024:005--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photographic print: crystoleum, hand colored; oval 11 x 8.5 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a woman wearing jewelry (brooch) at the front of a high collar.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Note (on verso of frame): Lizzie Smith Cole / or / Mrs. L.G. Cole; (mother) / Your mother was / beautiful refined / and queenly but / still fond of fun.

Frame label (printed, modern, on verso of frame): VICKERY, ATKINS & TORREY PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES At 550 SUTTER ST. SAN FRANCISCO.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: convex oval glass, albumen print[?], and backing paper[?].

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Dimensions: 22 x 17 cm.

General Note

Translucent photoprint (waxed or varnished), adhered to inside of convex glass, with color applied to back.

Subjects

Women

Aged persons

[Girl in profile.] [ca. 1878?] BANC PIC 1989.024:006--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photographic print: crystoleum, hand colored; oval 13 x 8 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of a girl, wearing blue tights, sitting in a stuffed chair.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: convex oval glass, albumen print[?], and backing paper.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

General Note

Translucent photoprint (waxed or varnished), adhered to inside of convex glass, with color applied to back.

Subjects

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

Cased images in the Mark Twain Papers collection. [1850-ca. 1870?] MTP

Abstract

16 items selected from the photographic holdings of the Mark Twain papers.

The cased photographs and related material selected from the Mark Twain papers consist of 16 images spanning the dates of 1850-ca. 1870. They include a daguerreotype, ambrotypes, tintypes, opalotypes (photographs on porcelain or milk glass), a drawing, and painted miniatures. They picture Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, and members of the Clemens and Langdon families. These images are part of the large collection of private papers of Samuel Langhorne Clemens that he himself segregated and made available to his official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. This basic core of original documents by and about Mark Twain was deposited at Berkeley in 1949 and bequeathed to the University of California upon the death in 1962 of Mark Twain's sole surviving daughter, Clara Clemens Samossoud.

Processing Information

RESTRICTED COLLECTION. Permission of the appropriate curator required for use. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.

[Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens as a youth holding a printer's composing stick with letters SAM.] Nov. 29 1850 MTP 9.07a [00001]

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Creator/Collector: Jones, G. H. [?] (fl. 1850.), photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 7 x 5.7 cm.

Content/Description

Waist length portrait of a boy wearing a white shirt with a black tie and a dark hat. He is seated in a chair with one arm akimbo and the other resting in his lap holding a printer's composing stick with letters SAM.

Date Note

Written in case well.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark: Scovill.

Inscribed in case well: G.H.[?] Jones [or Jonco?] / Hannibal Mo / 1850 / Nov. 29th.

On case pad: Samuel L. Clem-/ens - [illegible] / Taken Dec. 1850 / Age 15.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: dome topped (elliptical).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Pad: red silk.

Subjects

Authors

Teenagers

Boys

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Sam: portrait of Samuel Clemens...] (Detail.) MTP 9.7a [00001]--DIG

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[Samuel L. Clemens.] [March 12, 1869?] MTP 9.07b [00036]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: opalotype; ninth plate? (oval), visible image 4.9 x 3.9 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length, three-quarter view portrait.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (in pencil): Hartford, March / 12, 1869. / I xxxx you Livy! / And I xxxxx you, Livy! / Don't tell! [Inscription from Samuel Clemens to Olivia.]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Plate: opalotype. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Plain velvet (Berg no. 6-17). Material: purple velvet. Dimensions: oval 6.5 x 5.5 cm. Pad: white silk.

Subjects

Authors

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Samuel L. Clemens.] [ca. 1900?] MTP 9.19 [02518]

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Creator/Collector: Catani, Ugo, artist

Physical Description: 1 painting: oil on ivory?; visible image 10.6 x 8.1 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Signed in red [LR]: U. Catani.

Portion of postal card affixed to verso.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: painting, cover glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: copper? Dimensions: 12 x 9.2 cm. Notes: loop on top of frame for hanging.

Subjects

Authors

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Tintype of Orion Clemens.] [ca. 1861] MTP 9.06 [02515]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixteenth plate, visible image 3.2 x 2.2 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a man with a beard and mustache.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Engraved on verso: DL / BL.

Note (handwritten in black ink, on box lid): Tintype of Orion Clemens / in a Guinea-gold hoop which / [our?] mother used to wear / in the 40's. At the time it contained a lock of her / mother or grandmother's / hair. SLC. Apl. 1909.

Label (printed in blue ink, on box lid): PETER PAULAND CO / STATIONERS ENGRAVERS / BUFFALO.

Note (handwritten, on box bottom): Lot / No 9.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate.

Container or Case Note

Type: brooch. Material: metal. Dimensions: oval 4.1 x 3 cm.

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon, about age 14.] [ca. 1859] MTP 9.03a [02509]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; ninth plate (oval), visible image 5.1 x 4 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a girl, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), seated, wearing jewelry (necklace with pendant) and a headpiece with ribbons at the back.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / Improved / Riveted Hinge. / Patented / Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Moses Among the Bullrushes (Krainik no. 675). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: oval 6.6 x 5.5 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., Oct 14, 1856 & April 21, 1857.

Subjects

Teenagers

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon, age 15.] [ca. 1860] MTP 9.02a [02506]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; ninth plate, visible image 4.9 x 3.6 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a girl, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wearing jewelry (necklace and bracelet). Her arm is resting on a table.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral / geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.3 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Teenagers

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon, age 18.] [1863] MTP 9.20 [02519]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; quarter plate, visible image 8.6 x 6.3 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a young woman, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wearing white dress and jewelry (brooch).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On mat: [Holmes, Booth & Hayden] / Waterbury, Conn. No. 42.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Teenagers

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Painted portrait of Olivia Langdon] [1864] MTP 9.03b [02510]

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Creator/Collector: Fanshaw, S.R., artist

Physical Description: 1 painting (or painted photo?); quarter plate, visible image 9.2 x 7.2 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a girl, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), possibly at age 19.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On verso (in pencil): painted by / S.R. Fanshaw / 1864.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: painting, cover glass, preserver. Cover glass: convex. Preserver: plain.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Material: velvet. Dimensions: oval 10.5 x 8.5 cm. Pad: silk. Notes: push button closure.

Subjects

Young adults

Teenagers

Girls

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon, age 22.] [ca. 1867] MTP 9.02b [02507]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: opalotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.6 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length profile of a woman, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (handwritten, modern): Correspondence concerning this photo may be found in the OLC print folder. Image #6.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Plate: oval milkglass. Cover glass: convex. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 10.1 cm. Pad: purple velvet. Notes: rectangular push button case.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon.] [October 29, 1869?] MTP 9.03c [02511]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: opalotype; between ninth & sixteenth plate, visible image 3.7 x 3 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a young woman, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), at about 24 years-old.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (in pencil): Oct 29 / 1869.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Plate: opalotype. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - Scroll (Krainik no. 722). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: oval 5.9 x 4.7 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia Langdon.] [1868-1869] MTP 9.02c [02508]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: opalotype; ninth plate, visible image 5.8 x 4.7 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length, three-quarter view of a young woman, Olivia Langdon (1845-1904).

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Plate: opalotype. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Plain velvet (Berg no. 6-17). Material: purple velvet Dimensions: oval 7.5 x 6.4 cm. Pad: white silk.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Olivia L. Clemens and unidentified woman, possibly Ida Clark Langdon.] [ca. 1860-1870] MTP 9.16 [03263]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; between sixth & quarter plate, visible image 8.5 x 5.6 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of two women. At left is Olivia L. Clemens (1845-1904), at right unidentified woman, possibly Ida Clark Langdon or Hattie Lewis.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On plate (handwritten): (LL, recto): Mrs. Clemens; (verso) Mrs. Clemens.

Label on flap of portfolio: Tintype of OLC & unidentified / woman (possibly Ida Clark / Langdon Image #10. / [in another hand:] (probably Hattie Lewis) / 9.4 6.2 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/8") A. 12.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Charles J. Langdon as a young man.] MTP 9.03d [02512]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 5 x 3.8 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading, bust length portrait of a man with a slight beard and wearing a high, standing collar.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On mat: Cooke & Emerson's Patent Applied for / Providence, R.I.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum on backing glass (in the style of Cutting's Patent). Mat: decorative oval. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 7.4 x 6.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Young adults

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Charles J. Langdon as a boy.] [ca. 1858] MTP 9.03e [02513]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 4.9 x 3.7 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of a boy seated in a wooden chair. His hair forms a curl or wave on top of his head.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: ruby glass with face slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.4 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Laura M. Wright (later Dake), age 16.] May, 1861 MTP 9.21 [02520]

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.7 x 5.2 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of girl, Laura M. Wright (b. 1845), wearing floral bonnet.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well: Mrs. L. M. Wright / aged 17 coming Christmas / Taken May 1861.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: blue glass. Mat: decorative nonpareil. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: geometric - variant of The Cross Patee (Rinhart no. 53). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 cm. Notes: deep image well.

Provenance

Gift of Laura M. Wright's niece, Mrs. J. Jackson. Received April 9, 1984.

Subjects

Teenagers

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Wash drawing of a girl.] MTP 9.18 [02517]

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Physical Description: 1 painting: visible oval image 9.3 x 7.6 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a young girl, possibly Olivia Langdon (1845-1904).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Note (on postal card from Doris [Webster]): (verso): 113 / Mr. Fred Anderson / The Bancroft Library / Berkeley 4 / California; (recto): June 12 I am sending you and Henry another item that shows M.T.'s love for children. It is a picture of the little girl that he carried around when he was on the river, and later left in the family attic in St. Louis and descended like so many other things to Annie. We are in the midst of bad weather. Greetings to you both. Doris. It may be delayed; very rainy here.

Accompanying note (modern, on envelope): Note by [Richard] Bucci: This image looks like a childhood image of Livy. CF OLC 1864 #4. [Compare to Olivia Langdon portrait, MTP 9.03b [02510]]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: drawing, cover glass, preserver. Cover glass: slightly convex. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Material: velvet. Dimensions: oval 11.1 x 9.5 cm.

Subjects

Girls

Genre/Format

Portraits

Unidentified cased photograph portraits. [ca. 1855-ca. 1865] BANC PIC 19xx.494

Abstract

The collection entitled Unidentified cased photograph portraits consists of 2 items dating from ca. 1854-ca. 1865. They are unrelated items, grouped together by the library.

Provenance

Sources unknown.

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Two unidentified men.] [ca. 1865] BANC PIC 19xx.494:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; quarter plate, visible image 9.2 x 6.8 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of 2 men standing next to each other and holding cigars. One man is wearing a top hat and has his hand to the other's wrist, as if taking his pulse.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: faces slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative nonpareil. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Two unidentified children: a boy and a girl.] [ca. 1854-1856] BANC PIC 19xx.494:002--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.5 x 5.2 cm.

Content/Description

Right-reading portrait of a girl, seated, holding a doll in her lap. Although unidentified, with unknown provenance, this image may be related to the McLean family collection.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (illegible pencil marks, possibly by photographer or case maker).

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, backing glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum on backing glass (in the style of Cutting's patent). Faces sligthly hand colored. Mat: decorative. Cover glass: added glass over mat. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - Thistle Motif (Rinhart no. 119). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif.

Subjects

Girls

Boys

Children

Genre/Format

Group portraits

Family members and descendents of General M.G. Vallejo. BANC PIC 1978.195

Abstract

1 item selected from the collection of the Family members and descendents of General M.G. Vallejo.

The collection entitled Family members and descendents of General M.G. Vallejo consists of 25 photographs spanning the dates of ca. 1850-ca. 1940. Includes portraits (some inscribed) of M.G. Vallejo, his wife, their children, Salvador Vallejo, Napoleon Vallejo, Fannie Vallejo Frisbie and others of the Frisbie family, Sepulveda family members, Natalia Vallejo Haraszthy, and R.R. Emparan and wife Madie Brown Emparan. Includes a few views of Sonoma County locations associated with the family.

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Richard Emparan.

[M.G. Vallejo or one of his brothers?] [ca. 1850] BANC PIC 1978.195:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.7 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a man with a beard, seated with his arm resting on a table. He is wearing a large ring and a watch chain.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark (blind stamped, LL): SCOVILLS.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: textured octagonal.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

Portraits from the Weber and Drenckhahn families. BANC PIC 1982.011

Abstract

2 items selected from the Portraits from the Weber and Drenckhahn Families.

The Portraits from the Weber and Drenckhahn Families consist of 12 items (10 photographic prints and 2 daguerreotypes) spanning the dates of ca. 1846-ca. 1900. They include portraits (taken in San Francisco and Germany) of Adolph Charles Weber (of the pioneer family of Stockton, Calif.), his wife Regina Drenckhahn Weber, and others.

Provenance

Transferred from the Drenckhahn family letters (BANC MSS 82/27 c).

[Two women, presumably of the Weber family.] [ca. 1846-1852] BANC PIC 1982.011:001--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Breuning, W., photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 9 x 7.2 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of two women wearing jewelry (necklace, brooch, earrings).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On yellow label (printed, on verso of cardboard backing): Daguerreotype / W. BREUNING / Steindamm 144 / St. Georg. [Germany]

On card board backing (handwritten in ink, verso): Found in Augustas trunk / Think some of her mother's / family in N. Germany / [in different handwriting] 1974- / wrong above / Weber Relatives / maybe [ ].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: passe partout, octagonal.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container. Notes: passe partout mount ca. 15.5 x 11.5 cm.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Young man and woman, presumably of the Weber family.] [ca. 1846-1852] BANC PIC 1982.011:002--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Breuning, W., photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 8.8 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of two seated figures. The woman's hair has been crimped, and she is wearing jewelry (earrings and pins at her waist band). The man wears a printed bow tie around a standing collar.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On card board backing (handwritten in ink, verso): Pro[b]- Augustus / mothers family - / Found in trunk / [in different handwriting] 1974- / Weber relatives - / maybe Adollph Sr - / Ste[inwerden].

Yellow label (printed, on verso of cardboard backing): Daguerreotype / W. BREUNING / Steindamm 144 / St. Georg. [in Germany?]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: passe partout, octagonal.

Container or Case Note

Type: glass enclosure. Notes: passe partout mount ca. 15.5 x 11.5 cm.

General Note

European.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Teenagers

Men

Girls

Boys

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Young family.] BANC PIC 19xx.302

Abstract

5 items selected from the Young family portraits.

The Young family portraits consists of 4 daguerreotypes, 1 ambrotype, and 1 gelatin silver photoprint spanning the dates of ca. 1845-ca. 1900.

Provenance

Source unknown.

[Sara Young.] July 15, 1846 BANC PIC 19xx.302:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.6 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, wearing a plaid dress. Her arm is resting on a table.

Date Note

Dated in case well.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well: Sara J Young taken on the 15th of July 1846.

Plate mark (LL): Scovill's.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured octagonal. Seal: original (removed and resealed).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.2 cm. Pad: red silk.

Subjects

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified woman presumed to be Sara Young, and two children.] [ca. 1851] BANC PIC 19xx.302:002--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 6.6 x 9 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a woman seated between her two children. Buttons and jewelry (brooch on ribbon at woman's neck) are hand colored gold, and the mother's buttons have been emphasized using a stylus on the plate surface. Oldest child is holding a book. Sara Young and Thomas Jefferson Young (d. 1848) had two sons. Based on comparison to 19xx.302:01, this image is presumed to Sara and her sons.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark (UL): Scovill Mfg. Co / extra.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: jewelry and buttons hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative. Seal: original (removed and resealed).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.4 cm Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: case split. Image packaged removed and stored separately.

Subjects

Women

Mothers & children

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Unidentified youth.] [ca. 1858] BANC PIC 19xx.302:003--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; ninth plate, visible image 5 x 3.8 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait of a teenage boy, possibly the son of Sara Young pictured in 19xx.302:02.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (in pencil): Suzie, Let / me see the / one that you / had Sunday / Nov. 29 1868.

Label (modern, originally stuck to case, then sleeved separately): (3) [retain as only provenance clue, related to others w/ similar labels]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing [emulsion up]; face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 7.4 x 6.1 cm. Pad: red [?] velvet.

Subjects

Boys

Teenagers

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Thomas Jefferson Young.] [ca. 1845-1848] BANC PIC 19xx.302:004--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.7 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait, wearing a top hat.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark (LL): L.B. Binsse & Co. NY.

Note found in case well (handwritten): Thomas Jefferson Young born Oct. 25 1815 Died near Independence Mo. on the 19th day of October 1848. see over. [verso:] Have just noticed how young this person was. I remember Grandma Young said he died of consumption. That he had it when she married him. Fortunate her two sons did not inherit a tendency to lung trouble. P.S. Sarah was saying what a "cute youngster" Mary Jo is. See over.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured octagonal.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 cm. Pad: red silk.

Subjects

Pioneers

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Elderly woman in a bonnet.] [ca. 1845-1848] BANC PIC 19xx.302:005--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 7 x 5.7 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a woman seated, holding a book.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

In case well: Carter.

Plate mark (LL corner):40; (LR corner): [eagle?]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: textured oval.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 cm. Pad: red silk.

Subjects

Women

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Portraits

Miscellaneous

[Adams & Co. Express building.] [ca. 1854] BANC PIC 1905.17127--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 8.9 x 12.1 cm.

Content/Description

View of building bearing sign: Adams & Cos. Express. Three men stand in front along covered sidewalk. Building to right bears sign "Restaurant Francais" and sign to left advertises works of art for sale and reads "... Art Union ... A $[ ]000 Ingot of GOLD. Largest Diamond in the United States. Paintings! Diamond Work... Costly Works of Art &C... [No Charge?] to [ ] Artists. [ ] Dollar per [ ]".

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of Spray of Flowers in mother of pearl (Rinhart no. 22e [color plate]). Material: Japanned (papier-mache?), Mother of-Pearl inlay. Dimensions: 11.7 x 15 cm. Pad: plain red velvet.

Subjects

Men

Commercial buildings

Cities and towns

Buildings

Genre/Format

Architectural Photographs

[Adams & Co. Express building.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1905.17127--DIG

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[Adolph Sutro, his brother, and cousins.] BANC PIC 1994.016--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 11 x 14 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of two seated men and two standing men. The two seated are wearing blue neckties.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Plate mark (LL): [circle in sixths], [lamb], 40.

Accompanying calling card (with black border): [handwritten] Compliments of / [printed] Mr. Theodore Sutro / 320 West 102nd Street.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: faces and neckties slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: variant of Double Door with Shield (Berg no. 5-11). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 16 x 13 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Families

Young adults

Men

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[River bed mining scene with seven miners under a sluice network.] [1855-1858] BANC PIC 1983.157--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 8.3 x 11.3 cm.

Content/Description

Workers, holding pick axes and shovels, stop to pose.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: garments slightly hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative. Seal: original.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: The Music Lyre (Berg no. 4-5). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.3 x 12.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

General Note

Although not signed or attributed, general appearance and subject matter suggest that George Howard Johnson may be the photographer.

Subjects

Tools

Mining districts

Miners

Men

Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[River bed mining scene with seven miners under a sluice network.](Detail.) BANC PIC 1983.157--DIG

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[View of the town of Volcano, California.] [ca. 1854] BANC PIC 1979.001:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.7 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading view with four men in foreground; three are standing, one is on horseback . A small town of one story buildings is in the background, and the corner of a cabin is visible at left. A sign at left reads "Volcano Bakery".

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.5 cm. Pad: burgundy velvet.

Subjects

Mining districts

Miners

Men

Cities and towns

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[View of the town of Volcano, California.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1979.001:001--DIG

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[Henry Robinson's store in a California mining town.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 19xx.072--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 10.1 x 13.2 cm.

Content/Description

Right-reading view of a small town at the foot of a large hill, under a cloudy sky. Numerous business signs visible. Prominent at center is Robinson & Co. Other signs read: R. Barnes & Co. Cottage House Boarding and Lodging, Exchange Hotel, Sierra Hotel, Bakery, [?] Hotel, Polka, Vins & Liqueurs, [?] Bakery.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass, preserver. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - arabesque? Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.2 x 12.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: unusual case design. Same case found on BANC PIC 1986.017:001.

General Note

Although identified by accompanying note as Henry Robinson's store in Marysville, the geography is that of a town in the Sierra foothills. Topography is similar to Mormon Bar.

Subjects

Mining districts

Commercial buildings

Cities and towns

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Henry Robinson's store in a California mining town...] (Detail.) BANC PIC 19xx.072--DIG

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[Smith's Exchange, Natoma Valley, with wagons and teams in front of building.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 19xx.073--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 10.1 x 13 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter view of building with signs reading: Smith's Exchange and Natoma Valley. A girl stands on roof of porch, men are riding horseback and standing on porch. Several freight wagons are in the foreground.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On plate (UL): undecipherable mark, followed by numeral 40.

Inscribed in case well (in pencil): Aunt Ana's home / in Cal.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative (removed and sleeved separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - oval with leaf scroll. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.5 x 12 cm. Pad: green velvet with embossed urn motif.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Mining districts

Carts & wagons

Men

Girls

Commercial buildings

Children

Carriages & coaches

Genre/Format

Architectural Photog

[Smith's Exchange, Natoma Valley, with wagons and teams...] (Detail.) BANC PIC 19xx.073--DIG

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[Mormon Island: gold rush town view among hills.] BANC PIC 19xx.074--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 8.2 x 11.2 cm.

Content/Description

Bird's-eye view of a small town. A stream is on the lower right, with mining activity at lower left.

Date Note

[ca. 1854]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical) with diamond pattern. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15 x 12 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Mining districts

Dwellings

Cities and towns

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Mormon Island: gold rush town view among hills.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 19xx.074--DIG

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[Horatio G. Finch (b. 1819)] 1855 BANC PIC 1999.021--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Vance, R. H. (Robert H.) (d. 1876) , American, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; mammoth plate, visible image 29.8 x 25 cm., plate 32 x 27 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, wearing a standing collar.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Paper label (in hand contemporary with piece, on verso of plate): Horatio G. Finch 1855 / by R.H. Vance / San Francisco Cala.

Paper label (handwritten, on backing board): Please send me / to my brother / Hiram G. Finch. / Nobelsville / Hamilton County / Indiana. / or to / Fabius M. Finch / Franklin / Johnson County / Indiana.

On backing board (handwritten in pencil in early hand, verso): H.G. Finch / 1855.

Pencilled inside mat (in early hand): Finch.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: plain oval board.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Notes: modern frame discarded. Original backing board and mat retained and housed separately.

Biographical Note

Horatio G. Finch, born in 1819 in Hamilton Co. Indiana, came to California in 1849 aboard the steamship Panama. After mining on the American River and at Big Bar, he later lived in Benicia and San Francisco. Following the Civil War, he became a farmer in Solano County.

General Note

This "mammoth plate" portrait may be the largest surviving daguerreotype from California, and is the largest known by R.H. Vance.

Provenance

Previously in the collection of Abraham Stransky.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River, with Harvey Myron Sampson and Jeremiah Sampson.] [ca. 1854] BANC PIC 1969.040--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 9 x 6.4 cm.

Content/Description

Image includes three men and a horse and cart. Men work at the base a high embankment, and the two-wheeled cart has been backed up to the edge of the bank above them. A sluice box and a cradle or rocker are visible in the foreground.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: gold in pan hand colored. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Cover glass: replaced glass. Preserver: textured.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm.

General Note

Tarnish lines from three cracks in original cover glass are visible on the bottom half of the plate.

Subjects

Carts & wagons

Sluices

Tools

Miners

Gold mines and mining

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[View of mining activities near Chinese Camp on the Tuolumne River...] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1969.040--DIG

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[View of the Anable Placer Mine, Auburn, California] [ca. 1853] BANC PIC 1966.012--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 6.7 x 9.3 cm.

Content/Description

15 men working at a gold mining site, with sluice at left (at bottom of deep cut in river bed) and men with wheelbarrows at right.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: gold in shovel slightly hand colored. Mat: nonpareil. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of A Single Rose (Rinhart no. 122). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.3 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Sluices

Tools

Miners

Men

Gold mines and mining

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[View of the Anable Placer Mine, Auburn, Calif.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1966.012--DIG

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[Civil War Union cavalry soldier Seneca R. Flint.] [ca. 1860-1863] BANC PIC 1976.002:029--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 8.5 x 6.4 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait in military uniform wearing a sword and holding a hat. The military insignia and detailing are hand colored in gold. He is seated in front of a landscape backdrop and a curtain with two large tassels.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat: Dean & Emerson, Patent Applied for. / Worcester, Mass. No 26.

Printed in well (letterpress): Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L., P. & Co., / Are the sole proprietors and only / legal Manufactures of / Union Cases, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. - Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: ruby glass with military detailing slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric (Berg no. 3-24). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.4 x 10 cm. Pad: green velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Littlefield Parsons & Co. Notes: Case fractured. Image package removed and stored separately.

Biographical Note

Union cavalry soldier of the Wisconsin Volunteers, died 1864.

Provenance

Transferred from the Clementine Ursula Norton papers (BANC MSS 76/20).

Subjects

Young adults

Soldiers

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Garden scene with climbing roses, one woman, and two men.] [ca. 1855-1860?] BANC PIC 19xx.037--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: pannotype (collodion positive on oil cloth); image 25 x 30 cm., sheet 30 x 35 cm.

Content/Description

The men are seated, and the woman is standing among the roses. A house is in the background. Although there is no direct evidence, the image is believed to be in the California gold country, perhaps near Columbia, Calif.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: oil cloth Cover glass: added glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

General Note

The location has been inferred based on similar images of known locales in the gold country. Examples of this unusual medium, believed to be by the same photographer, can be found at the Huntington Library, the Amon Carter Museum, and the Columbia State Historic Park. The Bancroft Library holds one related pannotype of this size, cataloged as BANC PIC 1989.014 (Mining scene with a flume....)

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Mining districts

Women

Men

Dwellings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Mining scene with a flume and miners, including a California Indian(?) in foreground.] [ca. 1855-1860] BANC PIC 1989.014--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: pannotype (collodion positive on oil cloth); visible image 25 x 29 cm., cloth 29 x 35 cm.

Content/Description

View includes six men on a mined hillside.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, cover glass. Plate: oil cloth, or aphaltum coated linen. Cover glass: adhered to image surface.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Notes: removed from frame and encapsulated between two additional pieces of glass.

General Note

This image was once described as depicting a Hawaiian miner in the foreground, but there is no evidence to support (or suggest) this. The description was presumed to be a modern and inaccurate one and has been revised.

Another image in this unusual medium and format has been cataloged as BANC PIC 19xx.037 [Garden scene with climbing roses, one woman, and two men], and is presumed to be by the same phototgrapher. Similar large pannotypes from the California gold country have been located at the Huntington Library and the Amon Carter Museum. A larger example is in the collections of the Columbia State Historic Park, Columbia, Calif.

Subjects

Indians of North America

Tools

Mining districts

Miners

Men

Gold mines and mining

Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering)

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Geological Survey party camp: "In camp near Monterey 1861".] [1861] BANC PIC 1954.008:048--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: collodion positive on leather; visible image 11.7 x 8.5 cm.

Content/Description

View of a camp of the Geological Survey of California showing a tent among a few trees. Several men are in front. Laundry is hanging on the tent line. A cart and a few pack animals are off to the side.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On frame (modern frame, on verso): Brewer Camp / Near Monterey 1861 / ...

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: leather.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Notes: received by library in a modern frame, which has been removed due to preservation concerns.

Provenance

Forms part of the Francis P. Farquhar collections which include numerous photographs, drawings, and manuscripts related to the Geological Survey of California under J.D. Whitney, William Brewer, Clarence King, et al. (BANC PIC 1954.007-1954.008 and BANC MSS C-B 517.) Probably acquired by Farquhar from the estate of William Brewer.

Subjects

Tents

Men

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Hilaria Sanchez Reed.] [ca. 1856] BANC PIC 1997.038--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 8.7 x 6.5 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of a woman wearing jewelry (earrings and brooch). Her arm rests on a table.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On perimeter tape (handwritten): Halaria Sanchez Reed.

Printed in case well (letterpress): GENUINE UNION CASE, / IMPROVED / - / Fine Gilt and Burnish / ed Hinge. / S. PECK'S PATENT, / Oct. 3d, 1854 / H. HALVERSON'S PATENT, / Aug. 7th 1855, / Assigned to S. Peck.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing, jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - scroll (Krainik no. 60). Material: black thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.2 x 10.1 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif. Notes: S. Peck.

Biographical Note

Hilaria Sanchez Reed was the widow of John Reed (or Juan Read), of the Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio. John Reed died in 1843. For a related collection see: John Reed papers relating to his estate (BANC MSS 84/194 c).

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[California gold rush era river mining scene.] [ca. 1855-1858] BANC PIC 1995.045--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; half plate, visible image 11.2 x 8.2 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading view of a mining site with men stopping work to pose.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.2 x 12.1 cm. Pad: green velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Tools

Mining districts

Miners

Men

Gold mines and mining

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[California gold rush era river mining scene.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1995.045--DIG

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[Charles Caleb Boynton and an unidentified man with an issue of the "Night Owl".] [ca. 1855-1858] BANC PIC 1983.175--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 5.6 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Bust portrait, with horizontal orientation, of two men in hats, one of whom displays a publication titled The Night Owl. Boynton was a gold miner in California, and later established a school in Grass Valley.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass (added?), preserver. Plate: clear glass with partial asphaltum backing behind figures (en relievo), with white card and metal backing. Mat: rectangular. Cover glass: added glass? Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Birds on a Ring (Rinhart no. 85). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.1 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Charles Caleb Boynton and an unidentified man...] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1983.175--DIG

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[George H. Barklage.] [ca. 1855-1858] BANC PIC 1983.174--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.8 x 5.7 cm.

Content/Description

Seated, three-quarter length portrait as elderly man, with hat beside him on table.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (handwritten, affixed to back of case): From / Geo. H. Barklage / El Dorado Co. / California.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: violet glass, with face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: book style, faux tortoise shell with painted motif, variant of Flowers in an Urn (Berg no. 6-68). Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 10 x 9 cm. Pad: small, red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: exterior pattern could be imitation of leather marbeling.

Subjects

Men

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Mr. Fitch.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 1992.045--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.8 x 5.6 cm.

Content/Description

Right-reading bust portrait as an elderly man.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass, with black velvet backing. Mat: rectangular (double elliptical). Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: textured (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - oval rosette. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.1 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Provenance

Library purchase. See related collection of Fitch family papers (BANC MSS C-B 357).

Subjects

Men

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Portraits

[The sister-in-law of William H. Kelley of Mendocino, California.] [ca. 1856] BANC PIC 1981.136--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate (in quarter plate case), visible image 7.5 x 6.4 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait, wearing a fur stole.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing, face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval with patriotic shield and star motif (removed). Preserver: decorative (removed and housed separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - variant of Birds and Flower Basket (Rinhart no. 92). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif. Notes: quarter plate case. Image removed from case and stored separately.

Subjects

Aged persons

Pioneers -- California

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[T.J. Cobden-Sanderson as a young boy with two girls and three women.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1983.164--DIG

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[Peter Kelley of Mendocino, California.] [ca. 1858] BANC PIC 1980.052--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Shew, William (1820-1903), photographer (attributed to)

Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 8.7 x 6.6 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, holding a walking stick(?) with a carved head.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Printed in case well: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., / -Manufactures of- / Daguerreotype Cases. / L., P. & Co., / Are the sole proprietors and only / legal Manufactures of / Union Cases, with the / Embracing Riveted Hinge. - Patented, Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass (cracked) with asphaltum backing, face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: Alone at the Rendezvous (Krainik no. 31). Material: brown thermoplastic. Dimensions: 12.5 x 10.2 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Littlefield, Parsons & Co., Oct. 14, 1856, & April 21, 1857.

General Note

At time of acquisition by the library, this image was dated 1862 and attributed to photographer William Shew; however, no evidence is present to confirm this information.

It is not known whether Peter Kelley (or Kelly?) is related to the William H. Kelley family of Mendocino.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified man with side whiskers.] [ca. 1855-1856] BANC PIC 1971.004:01--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Vance, R. H. (Robert H.) (d. 1876) , American, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.9 x 5.2 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of a man with long sideburns, wearing a large necktie.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On case (verso): H.A. Eickmeyer. Patent. Feb. 27. 1855.

On mat (LL): R.H. Vance / San Francisco. (LR): Cutting's Pat. / July 4 & 11 1854.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, 2 mats, backing glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass Cutting's Patent process (sealed with balsam to backing plate), face slightly hand colored. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.5 cm. Pad: Brown velvet. Notes: Eickmeyer, H.A. Notes: double-hinged case, opening from front and back.

Subjects

Young adults

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[View of the National Hotel, Forbestown, California.] [ca. 1854] BANC PIC 1905.10710--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; half plate, visible image 10 x 13 cm.

Content/Description

Several people are on the porch of the hotel, and three carriages are in front. A donkey is in the LL corner, and as another animal crosses the road. A row of trees planted with fences around them in LR corner.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (stenciled on cigar box part): Maduro. FORBESTOWN, CALIFORNIA ca. 1854 AMBROTYPE, from DeWITT CLINTON GASKILL CORRESPONDENCE IN B.L. MSS. DIV. PURCHASED FEB. 1955.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: clear glass with black velvet backing. Cover glass: added glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral (front), geometric (back). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 14.9 x 11.8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: front has different motif from back.

14.9 x 11.2 cm.

Provenance

Received with the DeWitt Clinton Gaskill letters (BANC MSS C-B 565).

Subjects

Commercial buildings

Carriages & coaches

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[View of the National Hotel, Forbestown, California.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 1905.10710--DIG

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[Parks Bar?, Yuba River, California] [ca. 1852-1854] BANC PIC 1968.022--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 8.7 x 12.1 cm.

Content/Description

View looking over small mining operation. Several buildings and an American flag stand in center. A small bridge spans the river in the right foreground and forested hills rise in the distance.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: stylus and coloring use to indicate flag in center and larger object (unidentifiable) at right. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: textured.

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.1 x 11.9 cm.

Subjects

Mining districts

Gold mines and mining

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[William Tuggle Collins.] March 10, 1855 BANC PIC 1982.071--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 11 x 8 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length, standing portrait; wearing jewelry (gold chain and pin). One hand rests on the back of a chair.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (in ink): Sonora Cala. March / the 10th A.D. 1855 / William Tuggle Collins / Daurreotype [sic] / Love Purity & Fidelity / When wandering far on dista / nt soil / where fortune bade me roam / Mid splendid scenes of grief / or toil; / I ne'er forget my home.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval, saw tooth pattern. Cover glass: replaced glass. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: leaf scroll. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15 x 12 cm. Pad: purple velvet with embossed motif.

General Note

Very unusual "saw tooth" patterned mat.

Subjects

Young adults

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Painted miniatures of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hopkins.] [186-?] BANC PIC 1982.093--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Hill, Thomas (1829-1908), artist

Physical Description: 2 paintings: oil on porcelain?; each image ca. 4 x 4 cm.

Content/Description

Circular bust portrait of Mark Hopkins (1813-1878) and an oval bust portrait of his wife, Mary Sherwood Hopkins.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 10 x 12.7 cm. Pad: brown watered silk. Notes: minatures set in black velvet backing. Case has push button closure.

Subjects

Women

Pioneers -- California

Men

Couples

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Mark Hopkins (1813-1878).] BANC PIC 1982.093--CASEa--CASE

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Content/Description

Bust portrait of bearded man.

[Mary Sherwood Hopkins.] BANC PIC 1982.093--CASEb--CASE

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Content/Description

Bust portrait of woman wearing eye glasses and elaborate brooch.

[William Leidesdorff.] [ca. 1845?] BANC PIC 1956.014--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 painting: visible image 13 x 9 cm.

Content/Description

Bust length portrait, with a mustache and long sideburns.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On verso of frame (handwritten by a library staff member, possibly John Barr Tompkins) are several paragraphs giving the history of the sitter, excerpted from The Annals of San Francisco.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: mat, cover glass. Mat: velvet with metal trimmed oval.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: wood. Dimensions: 27 x 21.5 cm.

Biographical Note

Leidesdorff was a major San Francisco (Yerba Buena) land owner from about 1844. He was born in the Virgin Islands to a Danish father and black mother, and came to California in 1841, after a residency in New Orleans. He served as city treasurer, chairman of the school board, and as United States Vice Consul at San Francisco. He died on May 18, 1848.

Provenance

From the Robert Cowan collection.

Subjects

African Americans

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Isaac B. Wall.] [ca. 1860-1865] BANC PIC 19xx.488--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 11 x 8.3 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading, bust length portrait of a man wearing a bow tie wrapped around a high collar.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (handwritten on masking tape on bottom of ambrotype plate): Wall, Isaac B.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Cover glass: added glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: case.

General Note

Appears to be an ambrotype copy of a photographic print on paper.

Subjects

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[George Henry Eggers and wife.] [ca. 1854] BANC PIC 19xx.489--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 11.8 x 8.8 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait of couple, seated.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Accompanying postcard (1951): note signed R.D. Haines, quoting from "Historical Abstract of San Francisco": George Heinrich Eggers. A pioneer of Aug. 14, 1849. Member of the great Vigilance Committee of 1856. One of the founders of the German Savings Bank. President Eggers Vineyard Co. Prominent Mason. Died May 22, 1896, age 76. Native of Hanover. [Also noted:] Large family residence at 12th & Folsom Sts. (we have an original photo of the house). I may have been wrong about "sheriff", although I think he did serve a term as such.

Accompanying note (handwritten): Mrs. S. Eggers. / Ida Eggers Meyer / Robert Eggers + / Herman C. Eggers. [Meaning unclear. This appears to refer to other family members.]

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: faces and jewelry slightly hand colored, jewelry highlighted with stylus. Mat: nonpareil. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15 x 12.5 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Biographical Note

San Francisco businessman and "49er". German-born Eggers married Sophia Ehrenpfort in San Francisco in July of 1854. [See Alonzo Phelps, Contemporary biography of California's representative men, v. 2 p. 281-].

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Women

Men

Couples

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[James King of William (1822-1856).] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 19xx.490--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Vance, R. H. (Robert H.) (d. 1876) , American, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; half plate, visible image 11.5 x 9 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, with a beard and mustache, wearing a standing collar, and double breasted jacket.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Embossed on case pad: R.H. VANCE'S / PREMIUM DAGUERREAN GALLERIES / SAN FRANCISCO / SACRAMENTO / MARYSVILLE.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15 x 12 cm. Pad: blue velvet with embossed motif.

Biographical Note

San Francisco pioneer, banker, and editor of the Evening Bulletin newspaper. Murdered by James Casey in 1856.

General Note

For two other copies see 1905.16242:096 and the collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Clearly the original was copied numerous times after his shooting in 1856.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Unidentified musicians with their instruments.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 19xx.491--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; half plate, visible image 12 x 9 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading portrait of three men; two sitting, one standing, holding musical instruments (piccolo, cornet and large horn).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Inscribed in case well (in pencil): 187 [Di fones?] 204 D.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum on backing glass (in the style of Cutting's Patent), faces slighlty hand colored. Mat: nonpareil with four roses, floral motif. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: half case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15 x 12 cm.

Subjects

Young adults

Men

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[John Charles Fremont (1813-1890).] [ca. 1850] BANC PIC 19xx.492--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixteenth plate, visible image 3.1 x 2.9 cm.

Content/Description

Right reading, bust length portrait of a man, John Charles Fremont, with a beard and mustache. Fremont was military governor of California in 1847 and later Senator in 1850-51. He ran for President of the United States in 1856.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Mat: decorative oval. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 5 x 4.5 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Actor Edwin Booth.] [1865?] BANC PIC 19xx.493--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: albumen print; ninth plate, visible image 4.8 x 3.5 cm.

Content/Description

Half length, three-quarter view portrait of a man, Edwin Booth, seated with his elbow resting on a table. He is holding a paper or booklet.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: paper. Mat: decorative oval. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - leaf. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.3 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: blackened well (ambrotype case).

Subjects

Actors

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Joseph A. Butler.] August, 1855 BANC PIC 1963.038--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Blakey, R. E. (fl. 1855) , American, photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.8 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, seated, of J. A. Butler as a young man prior to his departure across the plains to California.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Accompanying note (handwritten, early, laid-in case well): Joseph A. Butler / August 1855 / R.E. Blakey Artist.

Plate mark (corner, UR): Scovill Mf'g Co / Extra.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.1 cm. Pad: red silk. Notes: case corner damaged. Image package removed and stored separately.

General Note

Butler's diary has been published as: Journal of trip to California, April-September 1856, edited and annotated by Marlin L. Heckman.

Provenance

Received with 1856 manuscript diary of Butler's journey from Illinois to California. (BANC MSS C-F 25.)

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Young adults

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[John Shertzer Hittell.] [ca. 1853-1856] BANC PIC 19xx.495--CASE

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Creator/Collector: Shew, William (1820-1903), photographer

Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.7 x 5.4 cm.

Content/Description

Bust portrait, with beard.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat (LL): Wm. SHEW / 113 MONTG.Y. ST. / SAN FRANCISCO.

Printed in case well (letterpress on paper backing): GENUINE / UNION CASE, / IMPROVED / Fine Gilt and Burnished Hinge. / S. PECK & CO., / MANUFACTURERS.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Mat: oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: geometric - Scroll (Krainik no. 258). Material: brown thermoplastic. Pad: purple velvet with embossed leaf motif. Notes: S. Peck & Co. Notes: case warped. Image removed and stored separately. Hinges appear to be in the style of Critchlow's 1856 patent, but case bears Peck name.

Biographical Note

California pioneer, writer for the Alta California newspaper, and author of numerous books on the state, San Francisco, Yosemite, and on mining and resources on the Pacific Coast.

Provenance

Provenance unknown. Possibly received with the Hittell family papers (BANC MSS C-B 405).

Subjects

Authors

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Mary Eliza Wilson Wakeman, wife of Captain Edgar Wakeman and daughter of John Wilson.] [ca. 1860?] BANC PIC 19xx.496--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 9.7 x 7.6 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait, seated, wearing jewelry (brooch, ring).

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (typewritten): Mary Eliza Wilson Wakeman daughter of "Gen." and Mrs. John Wilson.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, modern mat and cover glass. Plate: violet glass, face and jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative oval (modern - removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: frame (modern). Dimensions: 13.2 x 10.1 cm. Notes: Removed and stored separately.

Provenance

Unknown. Possibly received with the papers of General John Wilson (BANC MSS C-B 420)

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Phoebe Apperson Hearst as a young woman.] [ca. 1860-1865?] BANC PIC 19xx.497--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; quarter plate, visible image 8.8 x 6.4 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length, seated portrait. One arm is resting on a small table, and she wears a watch(?) chain.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Mat: decorative oval. Cover glass: replaced glass. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Young adults

Women

Genre/Format

Portraits

Portraits from the Clark Alberti papers. BANC PIC 1964.084

Abstract

1 item selected from the Portraits from the Clark Alberti papers.

The Portraits from the Clark Alberti papers consist of 17 photographs. In addition to these portraits, additional images have been cataloged as: San Diego area views from the Clark Alberti Papers (BANC PIC 1905.17167).

Biographical Note

Alberti was a San Diego city and county official; editor and publisher, Coronado Tent City News and Coronado Journal.

Provenance

Transferred from the Clark Alberti papers (BANC MSS C-B 899).

[Clark Alberti (b. 1855) and his sister Mary as children.] [ca. 1860] BANC PIC 1964.084:001--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 8.3 x 6.6 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of a boy and a girl. A woman's dress can be see off to the side. The girl is seated in a chair and is wearing a coral necklace. The boy is standing on an unknown object.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Stamped on plate (bottom edge): Melainotype plate / for Neff's pat 19 Feb. [56?].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: melainotype, faces and jewelry slightly hand colored.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Girls

Children

Boys

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Malvinia Virginia Manning.] [ca. 1860] BANC PIC 1944.008--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 7.3 x 5.3 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait of older woman wearing dark bonnet and holding a handkerchief.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (handwritten on tape, verso of plate): Manning, Malvinia Virginia 1840-[1920?].

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: face slightly hand colored.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Women

Aged persons

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Frederick Godfrey Hesse (1825-1911)] [ca. 1865] BANC PIC 1966.020--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 6.5 x 5.3 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait, with a beard and mustache, seated with one arm resting on a table.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: octagonal, face slightly hand colored. Mat: decorative with oval window, octagonal edge. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container. Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.2 cm. (image package).

Biographical Note

Mathematician and Head of the College of Mechanics at the University of California, Berkeley. The university's Hesse Hall, built in 1924, was named for him.

Provenance

Transferred from the Frederick Godfrey Hesse papers (BANC MSS C-B 1029).

Subjects

University of California (1868-1952) -- Faculty.

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Residence of W.W. Hollister.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 1969.042--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; half plate, visible image 12 x 9 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter view of house and part of yard with a row of young trees. The house has a widow's walk on top. Location of home is unknown, but it may be at Rancho San Justo, Monterey County (later San Benito County). Hollister lived at San Justo from approximately 1854-55 until1869, when he moved to Santa Barbara County.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (on paper attached with asphaltum, verso of image): Residence of / W.W. Hollister.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, preserver. Plate: clear glass (broken) with asphaltum backing. Mat: nonpareil. Cover glass: added glass. Preserver: decorative (removed and stored separately).

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

General Note

Related images in The Bancroft Library collections have been cataloged as "Photographs from the Hollister collection" (BANC PIC 1972.011).

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Dwellings

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[Unidentified girl, possibly from Theodora Kracaw Kroeber's family.] [ca. 1855] BANC PIC 1978.128--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; half plate, visible image 11.5 x 8.8 cm.

Content/Description

Full length, standing portrait of a girl wearing a dress with puff sleeves and a horizontal neckline, exposing her shoulders. Her hand is on a table next to a doll.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing. Mat: decorative oval. Cover glass: replaced glass.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Joseph McKeown of Alvarado.] [ca. 1860?] BANC PIC 1999.040--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 7.2 x 5.9 cm.

Content/Description

Full length, seated, occupational portrait of a man, Joseph McKeown, of the wagon shop in Alvarado (Union City, Calif.). He is pictured in his leather apron, holding a spoke shave.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Label (modern, affixed by dealer, on verso of plate, ): Alvarado CA. Alvarado / McKeown / wagon shop / Joseph [&?] Spoke / shave & apron / (handwritten, LL edge) Union City.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: shirt and face hand colored.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Captain John Rogers Cooper (1792-1872), brother-in-law of Mariano Vallejo.] [1851] BANC PIC 2000.047--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: daguerreotype; quarter plate, visible image 9.4 x 7 cm.

Content/Description

Half length portrait, with arms folded across chest.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Accompanied by note (handwritten, early) according to auction catalog (not found upon receipt or during conservation April 2000).

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: plain oval.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - Spray of Roses (Rinhart no. 131). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.3 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed lyre motif.

Biographical Note

Also known as Juan Bautista Rogers Cooper, Cooper was born in England and raised in Massachusetts. He came to California as master of the ship Rover, and was a pre-gold rush pioneer of the Monterey, Califonia vicinity. He married Encarnaci/ac\on Vallejo, sister of Mariano G. Vallejo. His half brother was California pioneer Thomas O. Larkin.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Aged persons

Men

Genre/Format

Portraits

[City Hotel, Coulterville, California.] [1860] BANC PIC 2000.048--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype?; half plate, visible image 8.8 x 11.5 cm.

Content/Description

View of building with several men standing on the bottom front porch, and one man standing on the second story porch. Sign over porch reads "City Hotel".

Date Note

Date from auction catalog description.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Accompanying business card (printed letterpress): Wagners' Hotel, / Coulterville, Mariposa Co., California. / Direct Route to Yosemite Valley.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate(?), oil cloth backing(?), mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: clear glass with oil cloth backing? Mat: oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral - grapes in urn with bird. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.3 x 12.1 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif.

General Note

Coulterville had two hotels: Wagoner's Hotel and the City Hotel. The City Hotel was known for its waterwheel powered by two Newfoundland dogs.

Weave of cloth backing is visible at top, under abraded surface. It is unclear whether the image is a pannotype (collodion positive on cloth) adhered to a cover glass OR a standard ambrotype on glass with a cloth backing adhered to the emulsion side of the plate. The result is an integrated plate in which the glass and fabric are fully incorporated. Since there appears to be emulsion on the glass (visible at the edges), an ambrotype with fabric backing is suggested.

Subjects

Mining districts

Hotels

Men

Commercial buildings

Buildings

Genre/Format

Architectural Photographs

[City Hotel, Coulterville, California.] (Detail.) BANC PIC 2000.048--DIG

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[View of Petaluma, California, looking east down Washington Street.] [ca. 1855-1865?] BANC PIC 2000.053--ffALB VAULT

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: collodion positive on glass (ambrotype?); oversize plate, visible image 22.8 x 33.4 cm.

Content/Description

Right-reading landscape view looking over town with hills in distance. White clapboard house in foreground. In middleground, right of center, buildings bear signs reading "Foundry" and "American Hotel". Sign left of center reads "Washington / Stable / P.E. Weeks." Other signs along Washington St. at left, read "Jacob..."; "[E.? ] Rowlson & Co. Blacksmith & Plow Shop / Wagons Made and Repaired"; "... Mexicana"; "... Store", etc.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate. Plate: clear glass with asphaltum backing.

Container or Case Note

Type: frame. Material: wood. Dimensions: 40.3 x 50.7 cm. Notes: silk cord attached to back of frame.

General Note

View from almost identical vantage point as Kuchel & Dresel's 1857 lithograph of Petaluma, a copy of which is present in the Robert B. Honeyman collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1963.002:0819--B)

Subjects

Streets

Dwellings

Commercial buildings

Cities and towns

Buildings

Genre/Format

Landscapes

[View of Petaluma, California, looking east...] (Detail.) BANC PIC 2000.053--DIG

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[Officers of the California Column cavalry, including William A. McCleave.] [ca. 1860] BANC PIC 1948.011--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; sixth plate, visible image 9.1 x 6.7 cm.

Content/Description

Full length portrait of four men, two are standing, two are sitting in wooden chairs. One man is in uniform.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

On plate (verso, modern): Gift of Mrs. Wm McCleave Jr? May 1951.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Soldiers

Men

Genre/Format

Group portraits

[Carolyn Fraser as a young girl.] [ca. 1862-1865] BANC PIC 19xx.338--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: ambrotype; sixth plate, visible image 6.4 x 5.2 cm.

Content/Description

Three-quarter length portrait, standing next to a table. She is wearing a cape, hat and plaid dress.

Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material

Blind stamped on mat: Scovill MFG Co Superior / Waterbury Conn No. 820.

On case (handwritten, verso): Carolyn or Carrie Fraser, daughter of Mr. / Mrs James P. Fraser. Born-Philadelphia, Pa. March 12, 1859, died July 21, 1966. Carrie married James Louis Martin. See Hist. of Solano County --- Fraser and Calender. p. 242

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: ruby glass. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.

Container or Case Note

Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: paper over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 cm. Pad: red faux velvet with embossed motif. Notes: Victorian, "forget me not", hand with dove and flowers, sticker on mat.

General Note

For another portrait of Carolyn Fraser Martin, see BANC PIC 1967.048--CASE.

Provenance

Possibly a gift of Milton Eisner or Mrs. Milton Eisner.

Subjects

Pioneers -- California

Girls

Children

Genre/Format

Portraits

[Two men in front of a log cabin.] [ca. 1870 or later?] BANC PIC 19xx.498--CASE

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Physical Description: 1 photograph: tintype; quarter plate, visible image 8.2 x 11.6 cm.

Content/Description

Image includes the cabin's stone chimney and curtained window, a wheelbarrow, outhouse, and a barren landscape with a forested ridge on the horizon.

Image Package Note

Original component parts: plate.

Container or Case Note

Type: no container.

Subjects

Pioneers

Cabins

Tools

Men

Dwellings

Buildings

Genre/Format

Architectural Photographs