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[Photograph album from the Lowell James Hardy, Jr. papers].
BANC PIC 2012.126--fALB; BANC PIC 2012.126--PIC; BANC PIC 2012.126
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[Photograph album from the Lowell James Hardy, Jr. papers]Abstract:
Chiefly family snapshots depicting leisure activities of multiple generations of Hardy family, including travels, outings,
domestic scenes. A elderly man likeley to be Lowell James Hardy, Jr. appears occasionally throughout album. Identified locations
include Yosemite Valley and Stockton.
Date:
1888 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caHardy, Lowell James -- Pictorial works
Hardy, Lowell James -- Archives
Leisure -- California -- Photographs
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Stockton (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiler unknown, likely one of the children of Lowell James Hardy, Jr.
Text tooled on leather album cover: What joy there is in looking back.
Many leaves annotated with descriptive captions.
Includes many cyanotype prints.
Detached and laid in photographs removed from album and filed in separate folder (PIC).
Photograph album from the Lowell James Hardy, Jr. papers, BANC PIC 2012.126, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Gift ; of Susan Ballard ; 2012.
Lowell James Hardy, Jr. born in Lexington, Massachusetts 1844; family sailed to California in 1850 and settled in Oakland
in 1851; graduated in the third class (1866) of California College (later renamed University of California); attended Harvard
Law School; wife Mary Little Hardy, children Estelle, Lowell and George; served in California State Assembly 18808-1881; died
1928.
Transferred from the Lowell James Hardy, Jr. papers (BANC MSS 2014/120)
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Cyanotypes.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 400 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : album 22 x 37 cm
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2012.126--fALB
BANC PIC 2012.126--PIC
BANC PIC 2012.126