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Title
[David Stodder Austin]
Contributor
Elite (Photographic firm)
Date Created and/or Issued
1885-1894
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2017-0684.
Bust-length portrait.
Born in Mobile, AL in 1827, came to California in 1846. Fought in the Mexican War. Employed by Pacific Mail and North American Navigation Company as captain of one of their steamers; served as agent for the Companies in Panama. Died in 1894.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : boudoir card, albumen print ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001612971CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Austin, David Stoddard,, 1827-1894--Portraits
Pacific Mail Steamship Company--Employees--Portraits
North American Navigation Company--Employees--Portraits
Mexican War, 1846-1848--Veterans--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Ship captains--California
Photographic prints
Place
California
Relation
990016248890205115. Resolutions of sympathy passed by the Board of Directors of the North American Navigation Company upon the death of the Company's agent at Panama, Captain David S. Austin

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