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Sepulveda-Mott Photograph Collection
P-096
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Title: Sepulveda-Mott Photograph Collection
Dates: 1861-1930
Collection Number: P-096
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1.7 linear feet (Boxes: letter, 5 x 7, 1 ov)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Photographs and albums; glass negatives. Cartes de visite, one ambrotype, some tintypes and cabinet cards, and other photograph
prints.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Sepulveda-Mott Photograph Collection. Collection Number: P-096. 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.
Thomas Dillingham Mott (July 30, 1829 -February 19, 1904) married Ascension Sepulveda. He was the son of John Rogers Mott
and Abigail Hathaway Dillingham. His brother was Stephen Hathaway Mott.
Maria Ascension “Chonita” Jacinta Sepulveda (February 15, 1844–December 1923) was the daughter of Jose Antonio Andres Sepulveda
and Maria Francisca De Paula Avila. She was the mother of Georgiana Francisca Mott, Thomas Dillingham Mott II and three other
children (total number of children was eleven, but only five reached maturity.)
Henry Van Der Leck – Son of Lorenzo Leck. Married Georgiana Mott.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs and albums; glass negatives. Cartes de visite, one ambrotype, some tintypes and cabinet cards, and other photograph
prints. Family photos, but also other individuals including William Rowland, Del Valle family members, the Mott building,
and unidentified portraits. Also a prayer card for Helena Modjeska. 1861-ca. 1930, undated. See also GC 1027 Sepulveda/Mott
Collection and P-277 Sepulveda Family Photograph Collection. See also P-260 Charles J. Prudhomme Collection
Californios