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Captain of the steamer Independence in 1851, and a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. Author of The log of an ancient mariner : being the life and adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman, 1878.Mary Eliza Wilson Wakeman was the daughter of San Francisco pioneer General John Wilson. Three-quarter length portrait of couple standing side-by-side. Wakeman has a beard, and is wearing a double breasted coat in which one of his hands is placed. Mrs. Wakeman (Mary Eliza Wilson Wakeman) is wearing jewelry (necklace and rings), and her hair is in ringlet curls.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; half plate, visible image 12 x 9 cm.
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