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Guide to the Elvira Davis Wiggan Photograph Collection
MS 18
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Title: Elvira Davis Wiggan photograph collection
Dates: circa 1860s-1941
Collection number: MS 18
Creator:
Wiggan, Elvira Davis.
Collection Size:
.2 linear feet
(18 photographs)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Elvira Wiggan Photograph Collection includes 18 photographs of friends and family of Elvira Davis Wiggan. Included in
the collection is a 1860s tin-type portrait of an African American woman, several photographs of Elvira Wiggan’s uncle, Samuel
Davis, and photographs of Elvira Wiggan’s father, John Davis, dressed in his Pullman porter uniform.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Elvira Davis Wiggan Photograph Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum
and Library at Oakland.
Elvira Davis Wiggan photograph collection , MS 18, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland,
California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 06/25/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Elvira Wiggan Photograph Collection includes 18 photographs of friends and family of Elvira Davis Wiggan. Included in
the collection is a 1860s tin-type portrait of an African American woman, several photographs of Elvira Wiggan’s uncle, Samuel
Davis, and photographs of Elvira Wiggan’s father, John Davis, dressed in his Pullman porter uniform.
I. Photographs
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Oakland (Calif.)--History.
African American families--California--Oakland.
Pullman porters--California--Oakland--History--Pictorial works.