Image / Frank Mayo as Davy Crockett, Niblo's Garden, N.Y., 1872

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Title: Frank Mayo as Davy Crockett, Niblo's Garden, N.Y., 1872
Contributor: Thors
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2016-3537.
Frank Maguire Mayo was born in Boston in 1839. In 1853 joined gold rush in California, settled in San Francisco working as actor, returned to East in 1865. Worked as actor, playwright and theater manager.
Bust-length portrait in costume as Davy Crockett wearing (fox skin?) cap.
From George E. Lask Collection.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Portrayals.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001589096CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mayo, Frank,, 1839-1896--Portraits
Crockett, Davy,, 1786-1836.--Portrayals
Pioneers--California--San Francisco
Actors--United States
Actors--California--San Francisco
Dramatists--United States
Costumes
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
United States
San Francisco (Calif.)

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