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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a portrait of Colis P. Huntington, ca.1889. He can be seen from the chest up facing forward while looking slightly to the left. He is bald with hair over his ears. He has a short full beard and moustache. He is wearing a three-piece suit with the double-breasted overcoat buttoned nearly to the top. Huntington was a rags to riches entrepreneur, railroad magnate, pioneer developer, one of original founders of CPR, a powerful 19th-century lobbyist, who financially aided the Tuskegee Institute. Photoprint reads: "build [...] P.R.R.".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 18 x 13 cm., 21 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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