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[Robert Howe family portraits].
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[Robert Howe family portraits]Abstract:
Includes a daguerrotype portrait of Robert Howe and an ambrotype portrait of Robert and his young wife Mary Ellen Hammond
Howe (both in CASE box). Also includes a snapshot of Robert, Mary Ellen and other family members; a later portrait of Robert
and an unidentified infant, perhaps a grandchild; and tintype portraits of two unidentified young women, perhaps daughters
of Robert and Mary Ellen (all in PIC folder).
Date:
1852 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caHowe, Mary Ellen Hammond -- Portraits
Howe, Robert -- Portraits
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unidentified.
Daguerrotype: sixth plate; ambrotype: quarter plate.
DAGUERREOTYPE AND AMBROTYPE (CASE box) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Purchase from Joseph T. Silva ; 2023.
Various papers (family birth, marriage and death lists; letters; government documents; biographical information) transferred
to the Manuscripts Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Robert Howe (born 1832 in New York, died 1915 in San Francisco): moved to California in 1853; worked as a prospector in the
gold mines, later as an assay merchant in San Francisco; married Mary Ellen Hammond in Coulterville, Calif. in 1859; served
various terms in the California State Assembly (1858-1861, 1873-1875, 1888-1890) and California State Senate (1875-1881);
briefly served as Speaker of the Assembly in 1889.
Robert Howe family portraits and papers, BANC PIC 2023.054, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicportraits.
Portraits
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Tintypes.
Albumen prints.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographs in 1 box and 1 folder : daguerreotype, ambrotype, tintypes, mounted albumen prints ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE AND AMBROTYPE (CASE box) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.