Portrait Collection, ca. 1860s-1950s
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Title: Portrait Collection, ca. 1860s-1950s
Dates: 1865-1955
Collection Number: P-078
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 23 linear feet (Boxes: letter, 1 flat, 2 ov; additional boxes of negatives)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Photographs and negatives. An artificial collection of portraits, mostly of southern Californians; includes tintypes, cartes
de visite and cabinet cards.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Portrait Collection, ca. 1860s-1950s. Collection Number: P-078. Seaver Center for Western History
Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs and negatives. An artificial collection of portraits, mostly of southern Californians; includes tintypes, cartes
de visite and cabinet cards. Photographers represented include Penelon, Pierce, Rendall, Schumacher, Steckel, and Wolfenstein.
Also includes persons of national and international prominence, including United States presidents. Also includes portraits
of Civil War soldiers. Many photographs are undated and unidentified.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs.
Photographs.