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[Charles Hayden Gray portrait photographs].
BANC PIC 2016.009--CASE
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[Charles Hayden Gray portrait photographs]Creator/Contributor:
Gray, Charles Hayden, creator, creator.Abstract:
Includes 4 cased daguerreotype portraits of Charles Hayden Gray (nos. 1-4), one of which depicted a second person who was
erased from the image. Portraits show Gray's gradual change in appearance from clean-shaven, well-groomed youth to long-haired,
unkempt gold-miner. Also includes 1 double ambrotype case containing portraits of Gray's parents Susan Getchell Gray and Edward
Gray (nos. 5-6); and 1 cased daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified woman (no. 7).
Date:
1850 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caGray, Charles Hayden -- Portraits
Gold miners -- California -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
A photographer's name appears on one case (no. 7): North, Artist, Cleveland. Other photographers unknown.
RESTRICTED CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should
be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Charles Hayden Gray portrait photographs, BANC PIC 2016.009, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase; from William Reese ; 2015.
Gray's original ticket for 1852 passage on clipper ship Governor Morton transferred to The Manuscript Collections of The Bancroft
Library (BANC MSS 2015/36).
Born 1831; sailed to California in 1852 to become a gold miner; married E.C. Sawyer in 1855; later listed as a merchant in
Eden, Alameda County, California.
Type:
graphicDaguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
7 photographs in 1 box : chiefly daguerreotypes ; plates chiefly 80 x 70 mm (sixth plate format)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2016.009--CASE
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
RESTRICTED CASED PHOTOGRAPHS: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should
be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.