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California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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consists of 1,232 photographic and other pictorial portraits of 416 men and women prominent in California's history. The portraits, selected from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, offer a diverse selection of artists, writers, businessmen, politicians, scientists, entertainers, and others, primarily from the early nineteenth-century until the present. Individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area tend to predominate since the library's holdings are strongest in this area.... View collection guide.

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1,670 items found in this collection

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Ambassador [Frederick Ferdinand] Low
[Ambrose Gwinett Bierce.] "Wrights, Calif."
[Andrew Cowper Lawson.]
Andrew Jackson Grayson (left), John Xantus (right)
Andrew Lawson
[Anita Blake in garden with 3 dogs.]
Anna Pavlova and H. Stowitts in La Peri
Anna Pavlova, Cleopatra (Egyptian dance) with L. Novkioff
[Anna Pavlova dancing.]
Anna Pavlova in Syrian Dance
[Anna Pavlova on a camel in front of the Great Sphinx of …
Anna Pavlova with Stowitts in Syrian Dance
[Anna Strunsky Walling.]
[Anne and Estelle Porter with bicycles.]
[Annette Rosenshine.]
[Annette Rosenshine with three small sculptures.]
Ansel Adams, Albert Bender, Virginia Adams
[Ansel Adams at Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve dedication.]
[Ansel Adams, left, and two other men at a worktable.]
Ansel Adams [with camera]
Ansel Easton Adams
[Antonio Coronel with three women.]
Antonio Sotomayor
Arnold Genthe
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