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[Louis Schwarzschild family portraits].
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Title:

[Louis Schwarzschild family portraits]

Creator/Contributor:

Lanier, Charles, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Schumacher, Frank G., 1861-, photographer.

Abstract:

Studio portraits of Louis Schwarzschild, his wife Amalia (or Amelia?) Oches Schwarzschild, and their daughters Virginia Harris, Alice Hellman, Leontine Rheinhart, Florence Baer and Adele Friedlander. Also includes oversize crayon enlargements of photographic portraits of Louis and Amalia.

Date:

1890 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Schwarzschild, Louis -- Portraits

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Identified photographers include Charles Lanier (San Francisco) and Frank G. Schumacher (Los Angeles). Name of artist of crayon enlargement illegible.
Backs of mounts annotated with biographical information.
Includes a framed pendant bearing initials A.S.
Gift ; Of Alice Weston ; 2015.
Louis Schwarzschild was a San Francisco-based importer; born in Germany in 1841; immigrated to the United States in 1866; married Amalia Oches in 1867. Per donor, he was once a wine supplier to Napoleon III.
Preferred citation: Louis Schwarzschild family portraits, BANC PIC 2016.045, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Portraits.
Cabinet photographs.
Portraits-California.

Physical Description:

photoprint
8 photographs in 1 box and 2 oversize folders : chiefly albumen prints on card mounts ; mounts 17 x 11 cm (cabinet format)

Language:

English

Origin:

California