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Title
[Dr. Joseph Augustine Benton]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1846 and 1848]
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 Histoiry Room.
Description
DAG-0131
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: BENTON, (DR.) JOSEPH AUGUSTINE
Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: tinted. Mat: textured octagonal brass.
Case: leather (hinge broken); 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. Motif: geometric. Pad: faded reddish silk.
Waist-length portrait of man seated with right arm resting on books on a table. First pastor of the First Church of Christ, Sacramento.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Benton, Joseph Augustine"; accession numbers 1994-0073 through 1994-0076.
Negatives, No. 24,087a-f (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype, sixth plate ; visible image 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001379293CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2546
Subject
Benton, Joseph A.. (Joseph Augustine),, 1818-1892
Pioneers--California
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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