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Title
[Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Hawley Crocker (Ellen Harmon)]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1855 and 1860]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
DAG-0168
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: CROCKER, MR. & MRS. GIDEON HAWLEY (ELLEN HARMON)
Image package: Plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative oval brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: leather, book style (hinge broken); "H.A. Eichmeyer, Patent Feb. 27, 1855" stamped on back of case; 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Motif geometric. Pad: purple velvet.
Seated portrait of woman and man; woman in dress with white collar, broad bell sleeves; man with beard, no mustache, dressed in suit with vest and tie, right arm behind woman.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
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
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype, quarter plate, tinted ; visible image 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001379306CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2559
Subject
Crocker, Gideon Hawley--Portraits
Harmon, Ellen--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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