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Title
Portrait of Charles Crocker, taken from a book, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of Charles Crocker, taken from a book, ca.1900. Crocker is shown from his upper torso to his head and is looking to the right. He is wearing a dark jacket, dark tie, and light collared shirt. He has an extremely long and thick light-colored goatee, and he has short light hair parted at left. Crocker was instrumental in completing the Transcontinental Railroad. Photoprint reads: "J.P. and M.P.R.R., built S.P. and U.P.R.R.".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 10 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13541
USC-1-1-1-13696 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11898
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13541
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11898.jpg
Subject
Crocker, Charles
Men
Portraits--Cr
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-70-149 [Microfiche number]
11898 [Accession number]
CHS-11898 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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