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Title: [Manville Barber]
Creator: Bushnell, Frederick H
Date Created and/or Issued: 18uu
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2019-0226.
Bust-length portrait.
Born in St. Lawrence County, New York in 1829 to Otis and Laura (Welsh) Barber. Came to California in 1853 via Nicaragua route in steamer Independence. In California, worked in variety of occupations - gold miner (in Folsom, Mormon Island, Auburn, Red Dog, Marysville); "China trade," hauling Chinese laborers to and from mines; merchant (Woodland); returning to Sacramento operated Phoenix Mill; beginning in 1884, purchased ranch land including Capay Valley ranch, River Ranch. Died in 1911.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Portrraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; oval image 5 x 3 1/2 in. on mount 9 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001642876CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Barber, Manville,, 1829-1911--Portraits
Pioneers--California.--Sacramento
Ranchers--California--Sacramento
Gold miners--California
Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Portrraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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