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Description
George Hobe came to the United States from Hamburg, Germany, in 1834, at age nine. In 1849 he came around Cape Horn to San Francisco. After an unsuccessful attempt at mining, he opened a cigar store in San Francisco and became an accountant. He was also active in Masonic organizations. He married Harriet Augusta Wright, who came to San Francisco from Utica, New York on the "Golden Age" in 1857. [Paraphrased from note in collection file by collector Zelda Mackay, who purchased the daguerreotype from Hobe's son's widow, Mrs. Harry Kendrick Hobe.] Arrived in California in 1849. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, with goatee beard. One arm rests on cloth-covered table, the other rests on his leg.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : stereo daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible images 5.2 x 4 cm.
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