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Mackay, Zelda, 1893-1985. Zelda Mackay collection of daguerreian era photography in California [graphic].

Title: Zelda Mackay collection of daguerreian era photography in California [graphic]. ca. 1845-1865.

Original daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes by various photographers, including Sheldon Nichols, Peter Britt, R.H. Vance, Silas Selleck, J.M. Ford, [William or Samuel?] Summerhays, [Charles F.] Hamilton, George H. Johnson, Shaw and Johnson, and William Shew. Chiefly individual and group portraits of California pioneers and their relatives, gold rush era mining towns, gold miners, and views of San Francisco and other California towns.

ArchivalResource: 109 photographs (chiefly daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes) : some hand colored ; cases 27 x 22 cm. or smaller.

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Houghton, Janice G. Janice G. Houghton collection on the Britt house [manuscript], 1954-1964.

Title: Janice G. Houghton collection on the Britt house [manuscript], 1954-1964.

Correspondence regarding Janice G. Houghton's work to preserve the Britt House of Jacksonville, Oregon, as a historic landmark.

ArchivalResource: .08 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870

Title: Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870

Approximately 440 cased photographs and related images from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes dating from the 1840s through 1860s. Also present are some painted miniature portraits as well as other photographic processes such as opalotypes, pannotypes, and crystoleum prints.

ArchivalResource: ca. 440 items (chiefly daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes); 504 digital objects

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