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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.