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Photograph album of residents of Red Bluff,
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The Huntington LibraryPhoto Archives
Title: Photograph album of residents of Red Bluff, California
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 197
Physical Description:
1 Volume
(1 box)
48 gem photographs (tintypes) in 1 album
Date: approximately 1880s
Abstract: A miniature photograph album of 48
tintype portraits, approximately 1880s, of early residents of Red Bluff, Tehama County,
California. Many of the sitters are identified in handwriting on the mount.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from
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necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Photograph album of residents of Red Bluff, California, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, May 1973.
Research shows that several of the names in the album correspond to names in an 1886-1887
directory for Red Bluff, Tehama County, California. Names and occupations listed in the
directory that match names in the album include: Tandy H. Gates (meat market), Chauncey
Burgess (farmer, grocer), Frank Smith (bookkeeper), Homer Hicks (bartender), Seth Freeman
(cashier, Herbert Kraft bank), Andy Ryan (carpenter), Nellie Lewis, and Judson Warren
Loomis, son of A. J. Loomis, a prominent pioneer of Red Bluff. The surnames of several women
and children sitters are also listed in the directory: Mayhew, Burgess, Finch, and Bradley.
Source: McKenney's Pacific Coast Directory for... (Red Bluff section), Volume 1886-87, San
Francisco: L.M. McKenney & Co.
A miniature photograph album containing 48 tintype portraits of men, women and children,
dating from approximately 1880s. Names are written in pencil under many of the photographs,
but there is no other identifying information. Several names are the same as residents
listed in a 1886-1887 directory for Red Bluff, the county seat of Tehama County, California,
a 19th-century mining area. The leather album was commercially made and has a title leaf
printed with the maker's name: "Lovewell's Gem Album, Los Angeles, California."
Processed by Huntington Library staff, circa late-20th century. In 2020, Suzanne Oatey
created a finding aid derived from a collection file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cities and towns -- California -- Tehama County
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Women pioneers
California -- History -- 19th century
Red Bluff (Calif.) -- History -- 19th
century
Tehama County (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century
Gem photographs
Photographs
Photograph albums
Portraits
Tintypes (prints)