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Title
Benjamin Dreyfus [graphic]
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim.
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1880 (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: P6834
Photograph donated by Alan LaMont and Richard Krebs.
See also accession number P4010.
Portrait of Benjamin Dreyfus, a pioneer Jew of the west, co-founder of Anaheim's first general store with August Langenberger in 1858, Anaheim's largest wine producer (over 800,000 gallons in 1880), served on Anaheim's city council in 1880 and was elected mayor in 1881 and 1882, first presidend of the Anaheim Union Water Company and one of the first oil refiners in the Southland; image shows bust-length view of Dreyfus mustache and goatee, wearing a dark suit, light shirt and dark bow tie; "Ben. Dreyfus" is handwritten on the image above his head.
Type
image
Format
1 Photographic print : sepia ; 8 x 6 in.
1 Photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6k4019q8
Subject
Draifus, Binyamin--1824-1886
Municipal officials and employees
Portraits
Mayors--California--Anaheim
Los Angeles Vineyard Society
Place
Mayors
California
Anaheim.

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