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Title: Lewis Winter papers
Dates: circa 1880-1910
Collection number: MS0058
Creator:
Winter, Lewis
Collection Size:
7 linear feet (13 boxes)
Repository:
Center for Sacramento History
Sacramento, California 95811-0229
Abstract: The Lewis Winter papers contains the personal and business related materials of Lewis Winter from 1880 to the 1910s. The personal
materials include letters, membership cards, a weekly subscription to The Youth's Companion. and photographs (prints, glass
plate negatives, and nitrate negatives) of family and friends. The business materials are made up of a number of portraits
on glass plate negatives. Additionally. there are many engravings made by Lewis Winter for his engraving business and engravings
collected as specimens and for inspiration. Winter subscribed to and saved many journals and pamphlets relating to photography
and engraving.
Physical location: 27E5, 27E7, 36H8, 35K7-8, 35L8 4E1 Drawer J
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research use.
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[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Lewis Winter papers, MS0058, Center for Sacramento History.
The Lewis Winter papers were donated by Bill and Shirley Gaylord to the Center for Sacramento in 2000 (accession 2000-166).
Processed by Laura J. French, 2003. Finding aid prepared by Laura J. French, 2003. Finding aid encoded by Sean Heyliger, 2019.
Biography / Administrative History
Teacher and artist Lewis Winter (1867-1930) was born in 1867 in California to John and Mary A. Winter (nee Schaffer). Both
his father and mother migrated to the United States from Wurttemberg, Germany - his father first worked as a blacksmith in
Detroit, Michigan in 1852 then continuing on to California in 1855 through Panama. His father worked briefly in the mines
in Amador County before settling in Antelope, California in Sacramento County where he became a farmer. He married Mary A.
Schaffer in 1863 and the couple moved to a farm in Yolo County, California in the Capay Valley in 1874 where they raised Lewis
and his nine siblings.
At the age of 19, Lewis moved to Sacramento, California initially working for the Southern Pacific Company. He took over C.
H. Holmes' photography and engraving business with offices in downtown Sacramento at 627 J street and for many years served
as the director of the Sacramento High School art department and as an instructor in drawing and engraving. In 1888, he married
Minnie Estelle Bauder, the daughter of Rev. T.J. Bauder who arrived to Sacramento in 1876 on the orders of the missionary
board of the United Brethern Church to establish a church. The couple raised three sons, Vernon, Harold and Dawson, and a
daughter Ethel in Sacramento and were active members of the United Brethern Church, with Lewis serving as church superintendent
for 32 years and Minnie active in many women's social organizations including the Women's Benefit Association, Golden Circle
No. 62, Neighbors of Woodcraft, Daughters of America, Order of the Eastern Star, Women's Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and Sacramento Chapter of American War Mothers.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Lewis Winter papers contains the personal and business related materials of Lewis Winter from 1880 to the 1910s. The personal
materials include letters, membership cards, a weekly subscription to The Youth's Companion and photographs (prints, glass
plate negatives, and nitrate negatives) of family and friends. The business materials are made up of a number of portraits
on glass plate negatives. Additionally, there are many engravings made by Lewis Winter for his engraving business and collected
as specimens and for inspiration. Winter subscribed to and saved many journals and pamphlets relating to photography and engraving.
Series 1. Photographs
Subseries 1.1 Commercial photographs
Subseries 1.2 Family photographs
Subseries 1.3 Assorted
Series 2. Business records
Series 3. Art work
Series 4. Artifacts
Series 5. Journals and pamphlets
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Engraving, American
Photographers--California
Sacramento (Calif.)--History