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Nast, Stone, Needles and Comfort family photograph albums [graphic].
BANC PIC 2010.051--ALB vol. 1; BANC PIC 2010.051--ALB vol. 2; BANC PIC 2010.051--AX; BANC PIC 2010.051
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Title:

Nast, Stone, Needles and Comfort family photograph albums

Creator/Contributor:

Nast, John E.

Creator/Contributor:

Needles, John T.

Creator/Contributor:

Stone, J. G.

Creator/Contributor:

Canova Studio

Creator/Contributor:

Stone & Needles

Creator/Contributor:

Needles & Nast

Abstract:

Albums contain mounted cabinet card and carte de visite portrait photographs of members of the Nast, Stone, Needles and Comfort families of Missouri, Colorado and California. Volume 1 chiefly includes portraits of Stone and Nast family members, many of them by photographer John E. Nast. Volume 2 includes portraits of Stone, Needles, Nast and Comfort family members. Among the individuals depicted in the albums are photographer John E. Nast, his wife Benjean (Jeannie) Stone Nast, Pauline J. Nast, Ernest Nast, Martha Nast, Amelia Nast Hilker, Gustin Stone, George Stone, Carl Stone, Kathy Stone, Reverend Benjamin Lamber Stone, Paulina Temperance Webster Stone, photographer John T. Needles, Walter Needles, Sylvia Stone Needles, Daisy Needles, Olin Comfort, Frank Comfort, Gus Comfort and Belle Stone Comfort. Oversize folder includes, among other items, a portrait of John E. Nast and 2 portraits of his brother, political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

Date:

ca. 1865.-ca. 1915 (issued)

Subject:

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Nast, Thomas -- 1840-1902 -- Portraits
Nast family -- Portraits
Stone family -- Portraits
Needles family -- Portraits
Comfort family -- Portraits

Note:

Photographers include John E. Nast (Alameda and San Francisco), John T. Needles (St. Joseph, Missouri), J.G. Stone (St. Joseph, Missouri), Canova Studio (Alameda), Stone & Needles (Pueblo, Colorado), and Needles & Nast (Pueblo, Colorado).
Title devised by cataloger.
Purchase; from Neal Austinson; 2010.

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.
Cartes de visite.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
2 albums and 1 oversize folder (ca. 80 photographic prints) : chiefly albumen ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2010.051--ALB vol. 1
BANC PIC 2010.051--ALB vol. 2
BANC PIC 2010.051--AX
BANC PIC 2010.051

Origin:

Various places