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[Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Earl Warren photographs from the Amelia Fry papers].
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Title:
[Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Earl Warren photographs from the Amelia Fry papers]Creator/Contributor:
Dassonville, William E. (William Edward), 1879-1957, creator, photographer.Abstract:
1: Studio portrait of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, with flower in lapel. 2: Snapshot image of Earl Warren and his former Departmental
Secretary when Governor of Calfornia, Merrell Farnham Small.
Date:
1920 (issued)Subject:
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott -- 1852-1944 -- PortraitsWarren, Earl -- 1891-1974 -- Photographs
Small, Merrell Farnham -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
On Wood portrait, photographer's signature lower right: W.E. Dassonville. Inscription inside cover of mount: Charles Erskine
Scott Wood. Gift from Sara Bard Field to Amelia Fry ca. 1964. (Multiple online sources date the image to 1920.)
Mount of Warren portrait includes photographer's name printed on front cover: Johansen, Sacramento, Calif. Inscription inside
cover: Happy Birthday & much love to Chita Fry, July 23, 1976, from "Pop" [i.e. Merrill Farnham Small]... This is the only
picture ever taken of her [i.e. Fry's] two friends together... Sacramento, January, 1971.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Earl Warren photographs from the Amelia Fry papers, BANC PIC 2014.228, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Among Amelia Fry's oral history subjects were poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field, who married Charles Erskine Scott Wood;
and Earl Warren, whose oral history includes an interview with Merrell Farnham Small.
Type:
graphicPortraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
2 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints in folder paper mounts ; sheets 13 x 18 cm and 12 x 9 cm
Language:
English