Guide to the Photographs from the LeConte Family Papers [graphic], ca. 1850-ca. 1900

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Guide to the Photographs from the LeConte Family Papers [graphic], ca. 1850-ca. 1900

Collection number: BANC PIC 1966.051--PIC

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1972
Encoded by:: James Lake

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Photographs from the LeConte Family Papers [graphic],

Date (inclusive): ca. 1850-ca. 1900

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1966.051--PIC

Creator: Leconte family

Extent: 20 photographic prints

Repository: The Bancroft Library.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

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Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Photographs from the LeConte family papers [graphic], BANC PIC 1966.051--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Collections

Additional LeConte family portraits filed in the Portrait File of The Bancroft Library.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Various sources: 11 items transferred from additions to the LeConte family papers (BANC MSS C-B 1014), 5 items given by Dr. L.J. LeConte, others from unknown sources.

:01--DAG [Daguerreotype portrait of Harvard mathematician Benjamin Osgood Peirce, a friend of John LeConte.]

:02--PIC [Josephine LeConte (Mrs. John LeConte). Two copies.]

Phot.: Ormsby Photographic Art Studio, 1055 Broadway, Oakland, Cal.

:03--PIC [Caroline E. LeConte (Mrs. Joseph LeConte)]

Phot.: Webster, Oakland.

:04--PIC [John LeConte. As a middle aged man.]

Phot.: Morse's, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco. #249.

Additional Note

[Three copies and a copy print. Negative available. One copy with apparently erroneous annotation "Uncle Joe" on verso.]

:05--PIC [Dr. John LeConte. Elderly.]

:06--PIC [Joseph LeConte. As a middle age man. Copy print present. Negative available.]

Phot.: Morse's, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco. #296.

:07--PIC ["Grandpa Doisee"? Resembles John LeConte.]

Phot.: Ormsby, Broadway, near 4th St., Oakland.

:08--PIC [Louis Julian LeConte.]

Phot.: G.B. Morse, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco.

:09--PIC [John Cecil LeConte.]

Phot.: Morse's, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco.

:10--PIC ["Jim", "Chinese Cook", LeConte family servant.]

:11--PIC [Lum Ting, "Chinese Cook", LeConte family servant.]

Phot.: Wilcox, Berkeley. ca. 1898.

:12--PIC [Lum Ting, "Chinese Cook", LeConte family servant.]

Phot.: Wilcox, Berkeley. ca. 1898.

:13--DAG [Hand colored daguerreotype portrait of Josephine LeConte. (Mrs. John LeConte).]

Phot.: Cary: Corner Bryan Street and Market Square, Savannah. [1850.]

:14--DAG [Ambrotype portrait of Louis LeConte, presumably the brother of John and Joseph LeConte (1821-1851)] [ca. 1860?]

Additional Note

[Perhaps an ambrotype copy from a daguerreotype taken prior to his 1851 death? Or perhaps a different Louis LeConte?]