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Title: [James William Nixon]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Bust-length portrait.
1990-1695.
Born in Sacramento in 1856. Attended Sacramento Business College. Served in variety of occupations - truant officer, clerk for his father Dr. Alexander Butler Nixon (Chief Surgeon in Central Pacific Railroad hospital in Sacramento), railroad machinist. In 1892, became mail carrier. Died in 1898, buried in Pioneer City Cemetery.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing : charcoal ; 16 7/8 x 14 in.
Identifier: (C)001490660CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Nixon, James William,, 1856-1898--Portraits
Postal service employees--California--Sacramento
Men--California--Sacramento
Clerks
Portrait drawings
Charcoal drawings
Place: California
Sacramento

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