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Title
Joseph Backs and his wife, Catharina Heyermann Backs [graphic]
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1874 (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: P202
Photograph loaned by Ed Backs, son of Joseph and Catharina Backs.
Photograph re-copied by Ray Pound.
Double portrait of Joseph Backs and his wife, Catharina Heyermann Backs, daughter of Orange County's first doctor; image shows full-length view of Joseph sitting in chair at left, wearing a dark suit, white shirt and white tie, a sprig of white flowers pined to his right lapel and holding a pocket watch in his right hand; Catharina is standing to the right, resting her right hand on her husband's left shoulder; she is wearing a white floral hat with matching floral earrings and corsage, and a long-sleeved dress with double row of pleating along the hem, bow accents and matching coat.
Type
image
Format
2 Photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
2 Photographic prints (image reversed) : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
1 Negative : 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6x0nc72r
Subject
Backs, Joseph M--1846-1926
Backs, Catharina Heyermann--1854-1918
Los Angeles Vineyard Society
Portraits
Anaheim (Calif.)--History
Place
Anaheim (Calif.)
History

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