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Title: [Dr. William Wayland Light]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait.
1990-1673.
Born in Ohio in 1819. Studied medicine and dentistry. Came to California in 1849 via the Isthmus, sailing from Panama to San Francisco in the ship Alexander von Humboldt. Settled in Sacramento, working for J.S. Ormsby and William Ormsby coining gold in their mint. Worked the mines before returning to Sacramento to practice medicine and dentistry. Owned gold mine in state of Sonora, Mexico. Died in 1895.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cardboard mount ; image 24 1/4 x 21 in. on mount 25 1/4 x 22 in.
Identifier: (C)001490566CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Light, William W.--Photographs
Dentists--California--Sacramento--Photographs
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Gold miners--California
Physicians--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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