Title:
[Charles Hayden Gray portrait photographs]
Creator/Contributor:
Gray, Charles Hayden, creator, creator.
Abstract:
Includes 4 cased daguerreotype portraits of Charles Hayden Gray (nos. 1-4), one of which depicted a second person who was
erased from the image. Portraits show Gray's gradual change in appearance from clean-shaven, well-groomed youth to long-haired,
unkempt gold-miner. Also includes 1 double ambrotype case containing portraits of Gray's parents Susan Getchell Gray and Edward
Gray (nos. 5-6); and 1 cased daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified woman (no. 7).
Date:
1850 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Gold miners -- California -- Photographs
Gold miners
California
Gray, Charles Hayden -- Portraits
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
A photographer's name appears on one case (no. 7): North, Artist, Cleveland. Other photographers unknown.
RESTRICTED CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should
be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Purchase; From William Reese ; 2015.
Gray's original ticket for 1852 passage on clipper ship Governor Morton transferred to The Manuscript Collections of The Bancroft
Library (BANC MSS 2015/36).
Born 1831; sailed to California in 1852 to become a gold miner; married E.C. Sawyer in 1855; later listed as a merchant in
Eden, Alameda County, Cailfornia.
Preferred citation: Charles Hayden Gray portrait photographs, BANC PIC 2016.009, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphic
Photographs.
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
7 photographs in 1 box : chiefly daguerreotypes ; plates chiefly 80 x 70 mm (sixth plate format)
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
RESTRICTED CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should
be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.