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First California Volunteer Regiment group portraits [graphic].
BANC PIC 2002.064--AX
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Title:
First California Volunteer Regiment group portraitsCreator/Contributor:
Arnold, H. B. (Harry B.), creatorAbstract:
Group portraits of soldiers of the First Regiment of California Volunteers during the Spanish American War period, presumably
assembled at San Francisco's Presidio or another San Francisco Bay Area military base. Images are dated 1899 and therefore
follow the regiments 1898 service in the Philippines.
Date:
1899 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caUnited States. -- Army. -- Regiment, California U.S. Volunteer Infantry, 1st -- Portraits
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Veterans -- Pictorial works
Soldiers -- California -- Photographs
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Stamped on verso of some: Copies of this picture or any Co. in the 1st Regt. Cal. Vol. can be had at H.B. Arnold[']s, 21st
and Valencia Sts. [San Francisco], Price
In negative: Copyright 1899.
Two images bear printed captions (Company K and Company L), and names of sitters. Others are uncaptioned.
Harry B. Arnold was a proprietor in the Arnold Bros. grocery business, at 21st and Valencia Streets in San Francisco. He is
presumed to have taken these photographs, although he may have acted as a sales agent for an unidentified photographer.
Type:
graphicGroup portraits.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
7 photographic prints on mounts : b&w ; mounts 27 x 35 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2002.064--AX