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[Photographs from the Obadiah Haight Hoag family papers].
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[Photographs from the Obadiah Haight Hoag family papers]Abstract:
Tintype portrait of an older man identified on verso, in unknown hand, as O.H. Hoag. If identification is correct, the age
of O.H. Hoag suggests a portrait date of ca. 1900, however the tintype appears to be earlier. If identification is incorrect,
this sitter might be Hoag's father-in-law, Larkin D. Cockrill (1800-1886). The unidentified ambrotype is a family portrait
of a young man, probably Hoag, with wife and infant. An ambrotype date of ca. 1861 is consistent with an identification of
sitters as Hoag, his wife Lurana, and daughter Helen. Portrait print of woman (perhaps Helen Hoag, daughter of Obadiah and
Lurana?) depicts her standing amid wisteria vines and blossoms.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPioneers -- California -- Portraits
Pionniers -- Californie -- Portraits
Pioneers
California
Hoag, Obadiah Haight -- 1837-1908 -- Portraits
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Quarter-plate ambrotype in case.
Annotated in ms on tintype verso: O.H. Hoag.
Annotated on back of albumen print mount: Lorna [sic] Hoag, ca. 1890.
AMBROTYPE : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Transferred from the Obadiah Haight Hoag family papers (BANC MSS 2008/242).
Albumen print portrait : Purchase ; From Neil Austinson ; date.
Obadiah Haight Hoag (also spelled Obidiah) was born in New York in 1837. He came to California in 1857, eventually settling
in Sonoma County. In 1860 he married Lurana Elizabeth Cockrill. Hoag was a lawyer, state legislator, businessman and farm
owner.
Photographs from the Obadiah Haight Hoag family papers, BANC PIC 2008.085, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
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graphicPortraits.
Portraits.
Ambrotypes.
Tintypes.
Albumen prints.
Physical Description:
photoprint
3 photographs : ambrotype, tintype and mounted albumen print ; sheets 30 x 24 or smaller
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AMBROTYPE : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.