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Title
[Mr. & Mrs. Willis Wright]
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1852]
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-0324
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: WRIGHT, (MR. & MRS.) WILLIS
Image package: two daguerreotypes, plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: (left) nonpareil textured brass; (right) acorn-shaped textured brass. Preserver: decorative.
Case: leather; 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. Motif: floral.
Two portraits. Left: waist-length portrait of a clean-shaven man. Right: 3/4 portrait of a woman with hands in her lap.
Restricted original. Use viewing prints only, shelved in the Portrait File.
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Wright, (Mr. & Mrs.) Willis"; accession numbers 1994-0247 through 1994-0252.
Negatives, No. 24,133a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographs : daguerreotype, sixth plates ; visible images 2 1/2 x 2 in. each.
Identifier
(C)001379465CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2719
Subject
Wright, Willis--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Women--Clothing & dress
Daguerreotypes
Portraits
Photographic prints
Place
California

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