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[Weatherwax family portrait photograph album]Creator/Contributor:
Weatherwax family, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, George H., photographer.Abstract:
Album of carte-de-visite studio portrait photographs of members of the Weatherwax family, pioneers of Placerville (El Dorado
County, California), and other individuals. Identified subjects include Sarah Dorinda Laverty Weatherwax (her maiden name
also spelled Laferty); Katie Letts Shelby (of New York); Maggie Henderson Letts; Lydia Churchill Homer (Michigan); Sarah Alger
Bird Peters (Byron, Michigan); Mr. Tracy; Calvin Peters; Mrs. Osgood; and Clara Nash. Includes at least 4 portraits of an
unidentified girl, likely Lulu Weatherwax (daughter of C.H. Weatherwax and Sarah Laverty, born 1873) taken at various ages.
Date:
1865 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPioneers -- California -- El Dorado County -- Photographs
Weatherwax family -- Portraits
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes many portraits by George H. Gilbert (Placerville, Calif.). Another identified photographer is William Shew (San Francisco).
Stamped on fly leaf recto: "C.H. Weatherwax". Inscribed on fly leaf verso: "Lulu I. Weatherwax, Placerville, May 10, 1880".
Names of some subjects hand-written on album leaves.
Purchase from Barney Chapman ; 2022.
Weatherwax family portrait photograph album, BANC PIC 2023.104, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicportraits.
Cartes de visite.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
34 photographs in 1 album : album prints on card mounts, inserted into album leaves ; print mounts 11 x 7 cm (carte de visit
format), album 16 x 14 cm
Language:
English