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Title
[Juan Ignacia Cantua]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1853]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
View (DAG-0155b). Juan Cantua -- View 2 (DAG-0155c). Cover.
Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative, nonpareil brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: paper with mother of pearl inlays; 4 x 3 1/2 in. Motif floral. Pad: embossed red velvet.
Waist-length portrait of man seated with hands at his lap; dressed in heavy jacket with wide collar, lapel and cuffs; gold painted chain hanging from his neck to his side.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Cantua, Juan Ignacia"; accession numbers 1994-0093 through 1994-0098. Also have photograph of Cantua as an old man, accession number 2000-0241.
Negatives, No. 24,093a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype, sixth plate ; visible image 2 1/2 x 2 in.
Identifier
(C)001379300CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2553
Language
English
Subject
Cantua, Juan Ignacia--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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