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Title: 1860 Portrait of Thomas Baker
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
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Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Colonel Thomas Baker, Iowa's first Lieutenant Governor, Colonel of the Iowa Territorial Militia, developer, lawyer, surveyor, member of the California State Senate and entrepreneur. He founded Bakersfield, California. He died of typhoid fever in Bakersfield in 1872.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 800 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 4 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/389
Language: English
Subject: Men
Portraits
Bakersfield (Calif.)--History
Baker, Thomas, d. 1872
Place: Kern County
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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