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[Doolittle, Moffat, McLaughlin and Shattuck family photographs]Creator/Contributor:
Henry, Jean Doolittle, creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly portraits and snapshots of various members of the Doolittle, Moffat, McLaughlin and Shattuck families of the San Francisco
Bay Area. Bulk of collection (PIC box) pertains to Jean Doolittle Henry's various publications about her great-grandfather
Alonzo James Doolittle and other family antecedents, including copies of manuscripts for Through the looking glass: a California
family (undated), and A California family: a social history of a family of California pioneers (2008), both of which were
earlier versions of the eventual 2015 publication San Francisco stories: gold, cattle and food. Accompanying these materials
are photographs of various family members, including Henry Moffat, Elizabeth Emma Moffat McLaughlin, Jean McLaughlin Doolittle,
Henrietta Moffat, Rebecca Jennings Doolittle Barker, Muriel Barker, Jack Barker, Alonzo James Doolittle, Martha Ely Doolittle,
and a carte de visite portrait of Mary Shattuck Spencer McLaughlin. Also includes other family biographical papers. Also includes
a photograph album compiled by Jefferson Jennings Doolittle, grandson of Alonzo, which chiefly pertains to multiple decades
of his duck hunting activities; and another photograph album, compiler unknown, with a small number of views taken in Arizona
and California. Ambrotype portrait (CASE box 1) depicts Adrianna Swett, wife of Henry Moffat. Framed painting (CASE tray)
depicts Judge David Olcott Shattuck and his wife Elizabeth A. Sanders Shattuck. Also includes 2 glass negatives (NEG box):
a copy negative of the cdv portrait of Mary Shattuck Spencer McLaughlin; and a copy negative of an unidentified man. Also
includes 4 early gold coins (OBJ binder): California gold (1850), U.S. 1 dollar (1851), California gold (1857) and California
gold (1861).
Date:
1850 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDuck shooting -- California -- Photographs
Canards -- Chasse -- Californie -- Photographies
Duck shooting
California
Doolittle, Jefferson Jennings -- Photographs
McLaughlin, Elizabeth Emma -- Photographs
McLaughlin, Elizabeth
Doolittle family -- Photographs
Moffett family -- Photographs
McLaughlin family -- Photographs
Shattuck family -- Photographs
Doolittle family
McLaughlin family
Moffett family
Shattuck family
Smith, Elizabeth McLaughlin
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes framed painting (CASE tray), coins (OBJ binder) and various papers (PIC box).
Collected by Jean Doolittle Henry.
FRAMED AMBROTYPE, FRAMED PAINTING and COINS: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.
Gift ; Of Jean Doolittle Henry and Chuck Henry ; 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Related book: San Francisco stories: gold, cattle and food.
Related collection: Alonzo James Doolittle family portraits (BANC PIC 2005.071).
Jean Doolittle Henry (born 1935?) is descended via her father Jefferson Jennings Doolittle from her great grandparents Alonzo
James Doolittle and Martha Ely Doolittle, and her grandparents Jefferson Ely Doolittle and Rebecca Jennings; and via her mother
Jean McLaughlin from her great great-grandfather David Olcott Shattuck, her great grandparents Moses McLaughlin and Mary Shattuck
Spencer and her grandparents Alfred McLaughlin and Elizabeth Emma Moffat (who was the daughter of Henry Moffat and Adrianna
Swett).
Doolittle, Moffat, McLaughlin and Shattuck family photographs, BANC PIC 2016.127, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicManuscripts.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photograph albums.
Ambrotypes.
Paintings.
Money.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 250 photographs in 3 boxes : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; various sizes
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/reference-online
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
FRAMED AMBROTYPE, FRAMED PAINTING and COINS: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.