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Title
[Margaret Blake-Alverson]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1854]
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-0138
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: BLAKE-ALVERSON, (MRS.) MARGARET
Image package: Plate, mat, preserver. Mat: decorative oval brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: no case.
Waist-length portrait of an 18 year old woman seated in a high-backed decorative wooden chair facing right, looking out; plaid dress with puffy sleeves, lace color and cuffs; brooch painted gold.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Similar portrait available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Blake-Alverson, Margaret #56". Have negative no. 28,862 (4x5 in.)
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : ambrotype, sixth plate, tinted ; visible image 2 1/2 x 2 in.
Identifier
(C)001379296CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2549
Subject
Blake-Alverson, Margaret--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Musicians--California
Ambrotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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