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Title
Portrait of John P. Zeyn and his wife, Sophia Menke [graphic]
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1850 (issued)
Contributing Institution
Anaheim Public Library
Collection
Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information
Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.
Description
Accession number: P201
Photograph loaned by Mrs. Chester Holcomb [Minnie Zeyn, daughter of John P. and Sophia Zeyn].
Photograph re-copied by Ray Pound.
Double portrait of John P. Zeyn and his wife, Sophia Menke Zeyn, taken in San Francisco prior to their move to Anaheim with the original Los Angeles Vineyard Society in 1859; John Zeyn was mayor of Anaheim in 1883; North Zeyn Street bisects the Zeyn's vineyard lots A4 and B4; image shows frontal full-length view, Sophia standing on the left, wearing a floral bonnet tied under her chin, a beaded satin coat over a dress, left arm linked with her husband's who is standing on the right in a dark suit, vest and tie, holding a light-colored hat in his right hand with a watch fob and chain visible on his vest; drapery and a large tassel are visible at the far left.
Type
image
Format
6 Photographic print : b&w ; 6 3/4 x 10 in.
1 Negative 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5s2017vc
Subject
Zeyn, John P. (Johann Peter Zeyn)--1831-1909
Zeyn, Sophia Menke--1829-1870
Mayors--California--Anaheim
Municipal officials and employees
Los Angeles Vineyard Society
Portraits
Anaheim (Calif.)--Politics and government
Anaheim (Calif.)--History
Place
Mayors
California
Anaheim.
Anaheim (Calif.)
Politics and government
History

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