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Title: [William Reed Strong]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait. "O T T N A T" -- handwritten in lower right corner.
1990-1740.
Born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1817. Arrived in California in 1849 via Panama (sailed on Ocean Queen to Panama, bark Eliza Ann to San Francisco). Spent time in gold mines before settling in Sacramento in 1852. Eventually ran mercantile business of W. R. Strong & Co. Died in 1905.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing on cardboard mount : charcoal ; 22 x 18 in.
Identifier: (C)001490805CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Strong, William Reed,, 1817-1905--Portraits
Pioneers--California--Sacramento
Gold miners--California
Business people--California--Sacramento
Men--California--Sacramento
Portrait drawings
Charcoal drawings
Place: California
Sacramento

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