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Title
[Hosmer Prosper Osborn]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1829?]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Bust-length portrait. "L G 1829 (?)" -- handwritten on right of image.
1990-1696.
Born in Oswego County, New York, in 1803. Came via Cape Horn to California in 1849. Settled in Sacramento where pursued variety of occupations - grocery/general merchandise trade, farming/sheep raising, running wood and coal yard. Died in 1883.
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 drawing : charcoal, col. ; 23 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001490661CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Osborn, Hosmer Prosper,, 1803-1883--Portraits
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Business people--California--Sacramento
Farmers--California--Sacramento
Men--California--Sacramento
Portrait drawings
Charcoal drawings
Place
California
Sacramento

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