Sepulveda Family Photograph Collection
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Title: Sepulveda Family Photograph Collection
Dates: 1850-1959
Collection Number: P-277
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: ½ letter; ½ 5x7; 1 ov folder)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: An artificial collection of original photographs (cartes de visite, cabinet cards) and copy prints for the Sepulveda Family.
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[Identification of item]. Sepulveda Family Photograph Collection. Collection Number: P-277. Seaver Center for Western History
Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
Jose Antonio Andres Sepulveda (1803-1875) was landowner to a large swath of Los Angeles County, including parts of today’s
Orange County. The subjects of the collection include descendants of the prominent Spanish Mexican Sepúlveda family in the
early days of Alta California in present day southern California.
Scope and Content of Collection
An artificial collection of original photographs (cartes de visite, cabinet cards) and copy prints for the Sepulveda Family,
including Louisa Domingo de Sepulveda, the daughter of Juan Domingo (John Groningen). Also four zinc plates of the portraits
of men, unidentified however one is of Roman Sepulveda. Also large portrait of Tranquillena Sepulveda, 1893, noted on back
as "Daughter of Don Jose Sepulveda". 19th century - 1959, undated. See also P-78 Portrait Collection under "Domingo". See
also P-96 Sepulveda/Mott Photograph Collection and GC 1027 Sepulveda/Mott Collection. See also P-260 Charles J. Prudhomme
Collection.
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Los Angeles County (Calif.)