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Horace Whitaker photographs.
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Horace Whitaker photographsAbstract:
Includes portraits of Horace Whitaker and his mother Mary Colegrove Whitaker. Portraits are early 20th century copies of 19th
century originals. Also includes photographs of Whitaker's property in Tulare County, Calif. depicting a carrot field, a cabin
among trees, and Whitaker in a horse cart.
Date:
1850-ca. 1905 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAgriculture -- California -- Tulare County -- Photographs
Agriculture -- Californie -- Tulare (Comté) -- Photographies
Agriculture
Tulare County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California -- Tulare County
Whitaker, Horace -- Portraits
Whitaker, Mary Colegrove -- Portraits
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Photographers unknown.
Title devised by cataloger.
Horace Whitaker was born in Hampton, Connecticut, 1830 and died in Orsi, California, 1910. He moved to California in 1850
and became a rancher in Tulare County. Before his death he donated 320 acres of a sequoia and conifer forest, adjacent to
Sequoia National Park, to the University of California. This stand has become known as Whitaker's Forest.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographic prints : b&w and albumen ; 26 x 19 cm or smaller.
Language:
English