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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Captain William Blanding's Photograph album
Creator:
Mitchell, Harriet Danforth Becker (Mrs. John L. Mitchell)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.298
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
1 flat
Date (inclusive): 1887-1888
Abstract: This album of 56 mounted photographs was given to Captain Blanding by Harriet Danforth Becker Mitchell (Mrs. John L. Mitchell)
as a souvenir of a trip to the Pacific Coast in 1887 by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers.
Language of Material:
English
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Captain Blanding's Photograph album. MS 298. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California,
Santa Cruz.
Donor unknown
Scope and Content of Collection
This photograph album was given to Captain Blanding by Mrs. John L. Mitchell as a souvenir of a trip to the Pacific Coast
in 1887. The 56 photographs are all albumen prints, each 4.5 x 3.5 inches, mounted on thick cardboard pages two prints per
page and bound into a leather album approx. 10 x 12 x 2 inches.
This scrapbook was created in 1887, the year Congress passed the Dawes Act. This legislation was designed to disenfranchise
American Indian populations by breaking up traditional systems of land tenure and imposing a system of government-regulated
private property ownership.
Finding aid revision statement
This finding aid was revised in the Reparative Archival Redescription Project in 2021-2022. Previous versions of this finding
aid are available upon request.
The following captions are below the photographs.
Mitchell, John L. (John Lendrum), 1842-1904. Description of a trip to California : with the Board of Managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers : delivered to the members of the Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wis.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photograph albums
Indians of North America -- Land tenure