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A.W. Von Schmidt portraits, Von Schmidt dredges, and other photographs.
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Title:
A.W. Von Schmidt portraits, Von Schmidt dredges, and other photographsCreator/Contributor:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912Creator/Contributor:
King, Henry, PhotographerCreator/Contributor:
Bradley & RulofsonCreator/Contributor:
Rogers & HoffmanCreator/Contributor:
Baker & FarquharAbstract:
Includes two portraits of A.W. Von Schmidt; 4 prints depicting Von Schmidt dredges in Australia; one print depicting the 1877
shipwreck of the Frank Jones off of Fort Point in San Francisco Bay; an unidentified group portait; and an unidentified man
hiking with a group. Cased photographs include daguerreotype portrait of unidentified young man posing with Webster's dictionary,
and ambrotype portraits of two unidentified girls. Also shelved with cased photographs is framed 1873 carte-de-visite portrait
of "Cary."
Date:
ca. 1855-ca. 1915 (issued)Subject:
u-at---Dredges -- Australia -- Photographs
Dragues -- Australie -- Photographies
Dredges
Australia
Frank Jones (Ship) -- Pictorial works
Von Schmidt, A. W. (Alexis Waldemar) -- 1821-1906 -- Portraits
Von Schmidt, A. W. (Alexis Waldemar) -- 1821-1906
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Photographers include: I.W. Taber, Bradley & Rulofson, Rogers & Hoffman (San Francisco), Baker & Farquhar (Melbourne), Henry
King (Sydney).
Includes one daguerreotype (quarter plate) and 2 ambrotypes (ninth plate); photographers unknown.
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes two portraits of A.W. Von Schmidt; 4 prints depicting Von Schmidt dredges in Australia; one print depicting the 1877
shipwreck of the Frank Jones off of Fort Point in San Francisco Bay; an unidentified group portait; and an unidentified man
hiking with a group. Cased photographs include daguerreotype portrait of unidentified young man posing with Webster's dictionary,
and ambrotype portraits of two unidentified girls. Also shelved with cased photographs is framed 1873 carte-de-visite portrait,
possibly of Edward Von Schmidt, one of the sons of A.W. Von Schmidt.
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Purchase; From Barney Chapman ; 2013.
Alexis von Schmidt, a Prussian, in 1849 came to Calif. He surveyed the border of Calif. in 1856, and again from 1873 to 1875,
headed the team to blow up Blossom Rock in the San Francisco Bay and owned the Lake Tahoe and San Francisco Water Works Company.
Alexis von Schmidt died May 26, 1906.
Preferred citation: A.W. Von Schmidt portraits, Von Schmidt dredges, and other photographs, BANC PIC 2014.001, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Cartes de visite.
Albumen prints.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 folder (3 photographic prints), 1 oversize folder (6 photographic prints) and 4 photographs : 31 x 37 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
Various placesCopyright Note:
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.