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Title: Boyd, Theodore Chauncey Papers
Identifier/Call Number: C057733
Contributing Institution:
Society of California Pioneers
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 folder
(2 pages handwritten)
Date: 1933
Abstract: A letter from Flora Stuart Boyd, daughter of Theodore Chauncey Boyd, to the Society of California Pioneers. She remarks about
the two paintings her father dontated to the society and his acomplishment of improving the San Francisco city seal, for which
he received 100 dollars.
Flora Stuart Boyd writes on December 12, 1933 from the Balfour Hotel at 326 O’Farrell St. in San Francisco to an unknown addressee
at a society about her father, Theodore Chauncy Boyd. The letter explains that Boyd arrived in California in 1854, having
previously worked in New York City, where he was well known. The letter mentions a Mr. Avery of the Bulletin. The writer explains
that her mother presented the society with two of Theodore Chauncy Boyd’s paintings, Saturday Night on Kearny St. and Sunday
Afternoon at Poodirard’s Gardens, the subject of which is a Mr. Poodirard. In addition, she states that three letters of thanks
he received were destroyed in the 1906 fire.
Donor and acquisition date unknown.
Theodore Chauncy Boyd was born in New York in 1830. He worked as a designer, wood engraver, watercolorist, and stockbroker.
He arrived in San Francisco in 1854 and set up a studio at Clay and Montgomery streets. He designed and engraved the Seal
of San Francisco and had exhibitions at the Mechanic’s Institute Fair in 1871 and the SFAA in 1873. He died in 1902. (Hughes.
Artists in California, 1786-1940, c.2002)
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research
There are no restrictions on access
Existence and Location of Originals note
The Society of California Pioneers, 300 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107
Theodore Chauncy Boyd Letters, The Society of California Pioneers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Boyd, Flora Stuart
Boyd, Theodore Chauncey
Artists--California--San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco (Calif.)