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Title
[Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Hawley Crocker (Ellen Harmon)]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1855 and 1860]
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
Stamped on back of case: H.A. Eickmeyer, Patent Feb. 27, 1855.
Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: tinted (slightly hand colored). Mat: decorative oval. Preserver: decorative.
Type: case. Motif: geometric, book style. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ in. Pad: purple velvet. Notes: H.A. Eickmeyer, Patent Feb. 27, 1855. Case unhinged.
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: CROCKER, MR. & MRS. GIDEON HAWLEY (ELLEN HARMON) C
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Crocker, (Mr. & Mrs.) Gideon Hawley and Ellen Harmon"; accession numbers 1994-0118 and 1994-0119.
Negatives, No. 24,098a-d (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5199n6zz
DAG-0168
Subject
Pioneers--California
Couples
Women
Men

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