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Description
2018-1090. Full-length portrait astride horse. Born Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth in Ohio in 1867. Worked as sailor, including whaling in the Arctic; tried ranching in Southern California and Mexico. Began work in theater in San Francisco's California Theater; went on tour; worked in New York, Arizona. Entered motion pictures in San Diego in 1908; developed career including acting, directing, writing screenplays; formed his own company, Hobart Bosworth Productions Co., in 1913, producing films based on Jack London's stories. Died in 1943 in Glendale, Calif.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated Sheet Portraits. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : paper mount, print ; 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001637673CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Bosworth, Hobart,, 1867-1943--Portraits Screenwriters--California--Portraits Sailors--United States Actors--United States Motion picture producers & directors--California Horses--California Photographic prints Portrait photographs
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