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Title:

[McQuilling family photographs]

Creator/Contributor:

McQuilling family, creator, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

McQuilling, William, artist.

Abstract:

Snapshots and portraits documenting multiple generations of the McQuilling and Shriver families of Pasadena and other California locations. Individuals depicted include Donald William McQuilling and his wife Carol Felicia Shriver McQuilling; Donald's father William McQuilling, William's sister Inez McQuilling and wife Amber McQuilling; and Carol's sister Zama Shriver and mother Myra Shriver. Volume 1 (fALB) chiefly concerns the life William McQuilling, while volume 2 (PIC box) was apparently compiled by Carol McQuilling and depict her and her family from her childhood to middle aged years. Both albums features views from Pasadena and other southern California locations. Also includes miscellaneous snapshots and tintypes; a sketchbook and other drawings, chiefly of scenic California locations, by William McQuilling; and ephemera (all in PIC box 1). Cased photographs (all in CASE box 1) depict Carrie Louise Fitch (ambrotype), an unidentified boy (ambrotype), an older woman (daguerreotype) and a middle aged man (daguerreotype).

Date:

1875 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Leisure -- California -- Photographs
Loisir -- Californie -- Photographies
Leisure
Pasadena (Calif.) -- Photographs
California -- Pictorial works
California
California -- Pasadena
McQuilling family -- Photographs
McQuilling, William -- Photographs
McQuilling, Carol Felicia -- Photographs
McQuilling, Donald William -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Numerous photographers.
Includes 2 daguerreotypes, 2 ambrotypes and approximately 20 drawings.
Daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (CASE box 1) : RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Purchase ; From Leslie Potenzo ; 2016.
William McQuilling was born in Pasadena in 1876.
Carol Felicia Shriver McQuilling: born in New Mexico on July 22, 1910; attended Stanford University; married Donald William McQuilling 1930; died in Santa Clara in 1984.
Donald William McQuilling: born in Pasadena, Calif. on January 21, 1909; attended Stanford University; died in Santa Cruz on May 16, 1995.
McQuilling family photographs, BANC PIC 2017.029, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits-California.
Photograph albums.
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Tintypes.
Sketchbooks.
Drawings.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 200 photographs in 2 boxes and 1 album : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; various sizes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (CASE box 1) : RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.