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Title: Richard Melrose, Portrait. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Digital Anaheim
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1900 (issued)
Contributing Institution: Anaheim Public Library
Collection: Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Accession number: P2827
Photograph donated by granddaughter Mrs. Duncan Powers.
Portrait of Richard Melrose, who moved to Anaheim in 1870, purchased the Anaheim Gazette in 1872 and published the newspaper until 1877; admitted to the California bar in 1877 and represented the Anaheim Union Water Company in disputes over water rights; served Anaheim as postmaster in 1884 and as City Attorney; in 1908 was elected to the California Assembly fro the 77th District; image shows Mr. Melrose seated, wearing a dark suit with vest, white shirt and dark tie.
Type: image
Format: 1 Photographic print: b&w; 10 x 8 in.
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt096nc3nt
Subject: Melrose, Richard--1850-1924
Anaheim Gazette--California--Anaheim
Los Angeles Vineyard Society
Municipal officials and employees
Portraits
Pioneers--California--Anaheim
Place: Anaheim Gazette
California
Anaheim
Pioneers

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