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Title: Addie L. Ballou
Date Created and/or Issued: 18uu
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust portrait.
2015-2662.
Addie L. Ballou (Apr. 29th 1838 - Aug. 10th 1916). Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio to Alexander Hamilton Hart and Polly Eldredge Hart, Addie Ballou grew up in Wisconsin and was a nurse during the Civil War. She moved to San Francisco in the 1870s and became notable as a women's suffrage activist, author and artist, painting the portrait of Califorina Governor Henry Markham in the State Capitol. She is buried in Igo Cemetery in Igo, California.
Have 2 copies.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photomechanical print ; 4 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001547299CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Ballou, Addie Lucia,, 1837-1916--Portraits
Nurses
Suffragists--California--San Francisco
Authors--California--San Francisco
Artists--California--San Francisco
Photomechanical prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco

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