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Title: [Senator Elisha Oscar Crosby]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Waist-length portrait of seated Senator.
Senator Crosby.
Arrived in California in 1848 as part of Gold Rush. Served as delegate to First Constitutional Convention, then as Senator from Sacramento District in 1849 legislature. Appointed by President Lincoln as U.S. Minister to Guatemale. Returned to California where practiced law, eventually settling in Alameda.
Harold Holmes.
Bought from Mrs. E.O. Crosby of Alameda by Harold Holmes of San Francisco; presented to California State Library at request of Mrs. Crosby.
Digital reproduction by Jesse Bravo; special Library project, 2009.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 painting : oil ; visible image 33 x 25 1/2 in.; framed 37 x 29 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001445762CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Crosby, Elisha Oscar,, 1818-1895--Pictorial works
Legislators--California--Sacramento
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Lawyers--California
Alameda (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Portrait paintings
Place: California
Sacramento
Alameda (Calif.)
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