Image / Genl Richard B. Mason

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Title: Genl Richard B. Mason
Contributor: Bradley & Rulofson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873-1877
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2016-3225.
"From Richard Barnes Mason, first civil and military governor of California" -- handwritten on verso. Signed by R.B. Mason.
Also have negative: no. 5741 (5x4 in.)
Born in 1797 in Virginia. Entered military service in 1817, served in a variety of posts before coming the California in 1846.
Removed from Wm. Davis Collection.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : boudoir card ; 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001572970CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mason, R. B.. (Richard Barnes),, 1797-1850--Portraits
Governors--California
Military officers--California--Monterey
Monterey (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place: California
Monterey
Monterey (Calif.)

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