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Title: [William Grothen]
Creator: Baldwin, John D. (John Denison), 1809-1883
Contributor: Rembrandt Studio
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2018-3421.
Waist-length portrait.
Born Lewis William Grothern in Germany in 1845, family came to America in 1851, settling in Indiana. Served in Civil War in the 11th Indiana Battery, attached to 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Arrived in Sacramento in 1876, worked as forman in the cabinet department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company's shops. Member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Warren Post No. 54.
Also have negative: no. GL#3481 (6 1/2 x 4 in.)
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; oval image 5 x 3 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001635635CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Grothen, Lewis William,, 1845-1915--Portraits
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Employees--Portraits
Grand Army of the Republic. Warren Post No. 54 (Sacramento, Calif.)--Portraits
German Americans--California--Sacramento--Portraits
Veterans
Veterans' organizations--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Photographs
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Time Period: Civil War, 1861-1865
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)
United States

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