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Hamlin, Francis [Photographs from the Francis Hamlin correspondence, diaries, and family papers].
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[Photographs from the Francis Hamlin correspondence, diaries, and family papers]Creator/Contributor:
Hamlin, Francis, 1817-1902, creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly portrait photographs documenting multiple generations of the Hamlin family descended from Francis Hamlin and his wife
Eliza Thrasher Hamlin. Individuals depicted include Francis and Eliza Hamlin, their daughter Augusta Thrasher Hamlin and her
husband Lloyd C. Ashley; Francis' grandson Robert Ashley; and many other extended family members. PIC box 1 contains a few
portraits of Francis and Eliza Hamlin, Augusta and Lloyd Ashley and their children; many portraits and snapshots pertaining
to Robert Ashley; and other portraits of Ashley and Thrasher family members and unidentified persons. Volume 1 contains chiefly
19th century carte de visite portraits, including Francis Hamlin, Eliza Ann Thrasher, Ann Thrasher and Francis' second wife
Annis Stevens, and many unidentified persons. Volume 2 contains 19th century carte de visite and tintype portraits pertaining
to the Ashley family, including Palmer, Richey, Murphy, McMaster, Beers and Wheeler families. Volume 3 contains 19th century
carte de visite portraits pertaining to the Thrasher family, including Ann, Eliza Ann, John C., Augusta and Alonzo. Daguerreotype
portraits depict Francis Hamlin, Lide Thrasher (Eliza's sister or niece) and an unidentified woman with two children. AX folder
contains a portrait of Robert Ashley and an unidentified large group posing outdoors with rakes and other gardening equipment.
Collection also includes a panoramic group portrait (in G folder), perhaps pertaining to Robert Ashley, of aviation cadets
of Bombardier Squadron 95, Santa Ana Army Air Base, taken June 16, 1944. Negatives (NNEG box 1) pertain to "Spruce production
division, Vancouver Barracks, 1918", Waller Campbell (or Walter Campbell), and unidentified topics.
Date:
1850 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFamilies -- California -- Photographs
Familles -- Californie -- Photographies
Families
California
Hamlin, Francis -- 1817-1902 -- Archives
Hamlin, Francis -- 1817-1902 -- Portraits
Hamlin family -- Archives
Hamelin (Famille) -- Archives
Hamlin family
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Title devised by cataloger.
Includes many carte de visite and tintype photographs housed in 3 albums (ALB vols. 1-3), and 4 daguerreotype portraits (in
CASE box).
Numerous photographers, most active in the 19th century, among them: Smith's (Marysville), Woods' Photographic Art Gallery
(Marysville), Elite Gallery (Marysville), J.A. Todd (Sacramento), J. Pitcher Spooner (Stockton), Palace of Art (Santa Rosa),
Theo C. Marceau (San Francisco), Adair (San Francisco), May Studio (Los Angeles), T. Shoob (Modesto), Hoag & Co. (Cincinnati),
Howland (Cincinnati), Leon Van Loo (Cicinnati), New Photo Art Co. (Covington, Ky.), and Lukins. Also includes 2 silhouette
portraits by Julius White.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Daguerreotypes (CASE box 1) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Transferred from the Francis Hamlin correspondence, diaries, and family papers (BANC MSS 2021/128).
Purchase ; from Michael Vinson ; 2020.
Francis Hamlin was born in Maine in 1817. He lived and worked as a teacher in Readfield, Maine during the late 1830s and early
1840s. By 1844, Hamlin resided in Moscow, Ohio. He came to California during the Gold Rush in 1849 and settled in the area
of Yuba City and Marysville, where he mined for gold. Hamlin moved back east to Ohio around 1851 and returned to California
in 1853 with 150 head of cattle to establish himself as a rancher and a businessman in West Butte. By 1879, he reportedly
owned around 1600 acres of land. Hamlin was active in public affairs, serving in the state legislature in 1862. He was also
appointed an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Sutter County in 1859 and signed a petition to the state legislature
for women's suffrage in 1870. Hamlin married Eliza Ann Thrasher in 1870 and was father to Augusta, born in 1878. After the
death of Eliza, Francis Hamlin married Annis Stevens in 1887. Francis Hamlin died in 1902. Augusta Thrasher Hamlin, daughter
of Francis and Eliza Ann, married Lloyd C. Ashley in 1903. They had three sons: Robert, Hamlin, and Palmer.
Photographs from the Francis Hamlin correspondence, diaries, and family papers, BANC PIC 2021.044, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPortrait.
portraits.
Archives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photograph albums.
Cartes de visite.
Tintypes.
Daguerreotypes.
Panoramic photographs.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 300 photographs in 3 boxes, 3 albums and 2 oversize folders : chiefly photographic prints, with some negatives
; sheets various sizes
Language:
English
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http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/reference-online
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Daguerreotypes (CASE box 1) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.