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Title: 1888 Portrait of David and Mary Hobson and their children
Creator: Harliss & Franklin
Date Created and/or Issued: 1888
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Portrait of David and Mary Hobson with two of their eleven children. David Hobson established the first Quaker Society of Friends in San Jose in 1861. The child on her mother's lap is Ruth, who was born in January of 1888, and died of diptheria in late October of that year, as did two of her brothers, Jessie and Charley (neither of whom is the boy on his father's lap in this photograph).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 5 x 8 3/8 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/431
Language: English
Subject: Children
Men
Portraits
Women
Hobson, David, 1822-1916
Society of Friends--History
Hobson, Mary
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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