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[Portrait photographs from the Hazel Gold Mining Company records].
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Title:
[Portrait photographs from the Hazel Gold Mining Company records]Creator/Contributor:
Hazel Gold Mining Company, creator, collector.Abstract:
Studio portraits of individuals and families, most unidentified. Among the few identified persons are James Gilbert, Ed Gilbert,
Margaret Ames, Mrs. H.M. Castillas, Susie Stevens and Alfred Alle (or Alfred Allen). Also includes one photograph of a sailing
ship. Relation of contents of this collection to the Hazel Gold Mining Company is uncertain.
Date:
1870 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caNote:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Hazel Gold Mining Company.
Chiefly cabinet cards, cartes de visite and smaller "medallion portrait" formats. Also includes tintypes and larger mounted
paper prints.
Many San Francisco studio photographers represented, including 1 or 2 portraits each by Godeus, J.G. Hucks, J.H. Peters, Charles
Lanier, Flaglor, Fowzer, Holler, Max Schneider, Abell & Priest, Edouart & Cobb, F.H. Bushnell, Jones & Lotz Elite, Viales
B., Boyé & Habernicht, Brown, Fuller and the Children's Studio. Other studios present include Pioneer Gallery (Stockton),
Photo Craft Studio (New York) and White (Lewisham, London).
Transferred from the Hazel Mining Company records (BANC MSS 2017/103)
Purchase from Leslie Potenzo ; 2016.
Portrait photographs from the Hazel Gold Mining Company records, BANC PIC 2017.039, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPortraits-California-San Francisco.
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes de visite.
Tintypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
39 photographs in 1 box and 1 oversize folder : chiefly mounted albumen prints ; mounts 34 x 25 cm or smaller
Language:
English