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Description
2018-0427. Bust-length portrait. Born in Marcellus, New York in 1810 to Samuel Winchester and Hannah Woods Winchester. Moved to New York City in 1807, learned the printer trade, establishing with Horace Greeley The New Yorker (became the Tribune); established the New York World with Park Benjamin as editor. Arrived in California in 1849 via vessel Terolinta; settled in San Francisco, San Jose (1850); Grass Valley (1851) and Columbia (1872). Was called General (though had not served in military). Worked as journalist, editor, owned patent medicine business. Elected the first State Printer while in San Jose. Died in 1887.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated Sheet Portraits. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : carte de visite, print ; 4 x 2 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001621008CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Winchester, Jonas,, 1810-1887--Portraits Pioneers--California--Grass Valley Pioneers--California--Columbia Journalists--New York--New York Newspaper editors--New York--New York Printers Grass Valley (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits Columbia (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Portraits Photographic prints Portrait photographs Cartes de visite
Place
California Grass Valley Columbia New York Biography Grass Valley (Calif.) Columbia (Calif.) New York (N.Y.)
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