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Title:

Agard family photographs

Abstract:

Portraits of Joseph J. Agard (ca. 1836-1904) from a boyhood daguerreotype (ca. 1849) to years as a Union Civil War officer to old age, and family portraits of his wife and his children Arthur Floyd Agard (1875-1957) and Mertha Agard (born ca. 1870). Includes card photographs taken in New York, Ohio, Sacramento (Calif.), and Oakland (Calif.), as well as some 20th century snapshots and a few photographs and postcards from travels to Japan and perhaps other Asian locations, ca. 1950.

Date:

approximately 1849-1950 (issued)

Subject:

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Pioneers -- California -- Portraits
Pionniers -- Californie -- Portraits
Pioneers
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Portraits
California
United States
Agard, Joseph J -- Portraits
Agard, Arthur F -- 1875-1957 -- Portraits
Agar family -- Pictorial works
Agar family

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Various photographers, chiefly unknown.
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transferred from the Agard family papers (BANC MSS 2006/140).

Type:

graphic
History
Pictorial works
Portraits
Daguerreotypes.
Tintypes.

Physical Description:

photoprint
30 photographs (28 photographic prints, 1 daguerreotype, 1 tintype) : b&w ; various sizes.

Language:

English

Origin:

United States

Copyright Note:

CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Related Item:

Agard family papers : Agard family.