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Title: [Mrs. R. M. Austin]
Creator: Hucks, J. George
Contributor: New York Gallery
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1880 and 1887]
Publication Information: San Francisco : J. G. Hucks, New York Gallery
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Bust-length portrait.
2013-0197.
Rebecca Merritt Smith was born in Kentucky in 1832, married J. T. Austin in 1863. Arrived in California in 1865 by steamer. Beginning in 1866, she began to study native vegetation, collecting plant specimens throughout northern California and the Cascades in Oregon. Collected and exchanged plant specimens with numerous botanists in the United States and Europe. She died in 1919.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001490954CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Austin, Rebecca Merritt,, 1832-1919--Portraits
Women botanists--California--Photographs
Pioneers--California
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Cabinet card photographs
Place: California

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