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[Ringo family photographs from the Mary Peters Ringo diary].
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[Ringo family photographs from the Mary Peters Ringo diary]Abstract:
Chiefly portraits of multiple generations of the Ringo family associated with Mary Peters Ringo and her daughter Fannie Fern
(Ringo) Jackson. Collection includes two portraits of Mary Peters Ringo; several portraits of Mary's daughter Fannie Jackson,
Fannie's husband Frank M. Jackson, and their son Frank Ringo Jackson; a portrait of Mary's daughter Mattie Bell (Ringo) Cushing;
a portrait of a woman described in captions as Mary's twin sister "Martha Ringo... Cole Younger's second wife" (perhaps the
same person as Augusta Peters Younger?); and a few snapshots of Mary's daughters Fannie, Mattie and Enna taken in their elder
years. Also includes views of the Jackson family house and ranch in the Los Gatos area; snapshots taken in the 1980s of the
gravestones of Mary, Enna, Mary's son Albert, and Mary's husband Martin; and portraits of Gertrude Scott Rutherford and Sam
Matthews, whose association to the Ringo family is undetermined. One oversize print (AX folder) combines portraits of Fannie,
Frank M. and Frank R. Jackson. Cased photographs (CASE box 1) include a daguerreotype portrait of Mary's father, John Peters,
and an ambrotype portrait of Fannie taken during her childhood. Although many captions refer to Mary's son, the gunfighter
John Ringo (aka "Johnny Ringo"), he is not depicted in any photographs herein.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
Ringo family -- creator.Ringo, Mary Peters -- 1826-1876 -- Archives
Ringo family -- Archives
Ringo, Mary Peters -- 1826-1876 -- Portraits
Ringo, John -- 1850-1882
Ringo family -- Photographs
Ringo family
Ringo, John -- 1850-1882
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Title devised by cataloger.
Also includes a daguerreotype, an ambrotype, two tintypes, a few gelatin silver and color prints, and a small album containing
mounted portraits in carte-de-visite format.
Most photographs bear hand-written captions identifying subjects; some were transcribed by library staff from adhesive labels
that were thereafter discarded.
Identified studio photographers include Wright's Art and Portrait Gallery (San Jose), John Macaulay (S.J.), D.B. Taylor &
Co. (San Francisco), Imperial (S.F.), S.I. Morris (Los Gatos), Swaney (Los Gatos), W.A. Wesner (Los Angeles) and A. Miller.
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS (Daguerreotype and Ambrotype) RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.
Transferred from the Mary Peters Ringo diary (BANC MSS 2022/184).
Purchase from Michael Vinson Americana ; 2021.
Mary Peters Ringo was born in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, the daughter of John Robert and Frances Augusta (Simms) Peters.
She married Martin Ringo on September 5, 1848 and together they had five children: John, Martin Albert, Fannie, Mary Enna,
and Mattie Bell. Mary, Martin, and family left Liberty, Missouri in spring of 1864 on an overland journey to California. Mary's
sister, Augusta, lived in San Jose with her husband Coleman P. Younger, the uncle of infamous outlaw Cole Younger. Martin
Ringo (Mary's husband) had tuberculosis, and the family hoped the change of climate would improve his health. During the journey,
Martin Ringo was killed when he accidentally fired a bullet from his own gun directly into his right eye. Mary, herself, was
pregnant during the entire trip and gave birth to a stillborn baby in Austin, Nevada. After the family's journey to California,
John Ringo, Martin's and Mary's son went to Texas and eventually to the Arizona Territory. There, he became the notorious
outlaw and gunslinger John Ringo.
Ringo family photographs from the Mary Peters Ringo diary, BANC PIC 2022.107, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Albumen prints.
Cartes de visit.
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Tintypes.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
27 photographs in 2 boxes and 1 folder : chiefly albumen prints ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS (Daguerreotype and Ambrotype) RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.