Jump to Content

> Home > UC Berkeley > Bancroft Library
Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Portraits from a Yosemite excursion : including two portraits of Chaffee and Chamberlain /
BANC PIC 1965.039--PICLOCAL
No online items No online items
Collection location Offline. Contact UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Overview

Title:

Portraits from a Yosemite excursion: including two portraits of Chaffee and Chamberlain

Creator/Contributor:

Coffin, Alonzo, 1856-, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Fiske, George, 1835-1918

Abstract:

One card-mounted photograph by George Fiske shows Alonzo Coffin, Alfred Ogg, and companions in camp on their 1895 Yosemite trip. Two real-photo postcards acquired by Coffin depict John Chaffee and Jason Chamberlain seated together on porch and among a group of elderly Big Oak Flat Road pioneers.

Date:

1895-ca. 1900 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Pioneers -- California -- Tuolumne County -- Photographs
Pionniers -- Californie -- Tuolumne (Comté) -- Photographies
Pioneers
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Big Oak Flat Road (Calif.)
Yosemite, Vallée de (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California -- Tuolumne County
California -- Yosemite Valley
Chaffee and Chamberlain -- Pictorial works
Coffin, Alonzo -- 1856- -- Portraits
Chaffee, John Amos -- 1823-1903 -- Portraits
Ogg, Albert E -- Portraits
Chamberlain, J. P. (Jason P.) -- -1903 -- Portraits

Note:

collected by Alonzo Coffin.
Photographs collected by Alonzo Coffin.
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Various photographers.
Transferred from Coffin's typescript entitled: An account of an excursion to Yosemite Valley, June 1 to June 23, 1895 (BANC MSS C-D 5204).
John Amos Chaffee and Jason P. Chamberlain were partners in the Gold Rush-era camp of Second Garrote, near present-day Groveland, in Tuolumne County, Calif. The two gained renown in the story Tennessee's Partner, by Brett Harte, who based the fictional story on the miners' celebrated friendship.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.

Physical Description:

photoprint
3 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 19 cm. or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1965.039--PICLOCAL

Origin:

California

Related Item:

Account of an excursion to Yosemite Valley, June 1 to June 23, 1895 : Coffin, Alonzo, : 1856-