Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a portrait of an engraving of George H. Bonebrake, [s.d.]. He can be seen from the chest up facing slightly to the right. He has short wavy hair and a large grey goatee and mustache. He is wearing a three-piece suit with a bow tie. The background is light. "Eng'd by H.B. Hall's Sons, N.Y." -- at bottom. Photoprint reads: "Banker and Merchant(?)". With F.C. Hawes, he co-founded the Semi-Tropic Land and Water Co., Los Angeles, in 1887, to "to purchase, improve, hold, and sell real estate, water and water rights and privileges build reservoirs and ditches and lay pipes distribute water and collect rates therefore issue bonds and borrow and loan money, etc." according the the company minutes.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 21 x 17 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs
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