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Title
[Elizabeth L. Hawley and twin sons]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1859]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
DAG-0216
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: HAWLEY, (MRS.) ELIZABETH L. AND TWIN SONS
Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: round cornered, decorative brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: thermoplastic; 6 1/4 x 5 in. Motif: Patriotic. Pad: embossed burgundy velvet.
Case motif entitled "The Washington Monument, Richmond, Virginia." The case maker has been attributed as S. Peck and Company, although other companies also used this design. The die engraver has been identified as Frederick P. Goll.
Seated portrait of young woman holding two babies in long white gowns, sons Charles H. and George Percy.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Hawley, Elizabeth Lewis"; accession numbers 1994-0156 through 1994-0161.
Negatives, No. 24.108a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 ambrotype : half plate, tinted ; 4 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001379315CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2568
Subject
Hawley, Elizabeth L.--Portraits
Hawley, Charles H.--Portraits
Hawley, George Percy--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Children--California
Ambrotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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