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Title: [Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Benson & son Charles]
Creator: Hamilton, Charles F., photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1854 and 1858?]
Publication Information: California State Library
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Hamilton's maker's mark on mat.
Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.
Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 6 x 4 ¾ in. Pad: embossed brown velvet. Notes: case unhinged.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: BENSON, H. A. (MR. & MRS. & SON CHARLES) C
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Benson, H. A."; accession number 2000-0198 through 2000-0201. Negatives, No. 26,519a-f (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Negatives, No. 26,519a-f (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : ambrotype ; half plate, visible image 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4489n6d1
DAG-0130
Subject: Pioneers--California
Mothers & children--Portraits
Families--Portraits
Children--Portraits
Couples
Fathers & children
Infants
Boys
Women
Men

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