Photograph album of portraits of men, women, and children [graphic] / Laura Adams Armer. [ca. 1900-1912]

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Photograph album of portraits of men, women, and children [graphic] / Laura Adams Armer. [ca. 1900-1912]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381807

Portraits by Laura Adams Armer of family and community members, many of them well known. Included are: Sidney Armer; the Chabot family children; David Farguharson, architect; W.H. Beatty, chief justice of the California supreme court; two members of the Toklas family; Lewis F. Cockroft of the Oceanic Steamship Company; and Austin Lewis, the Socialist party candidate for governor of California in 1906. Includes many photos of artists and writers, such as Arthur Matthews, Anne Bremer, Boardman Robinson, and Royal Cortissoz. There are also portraits of photographers William Dassonville and Oscar Maurer, and sculptor Robert Aitken.

1 album (209 photographic prints) : b? ; album 23 x 33 cm.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6697297

California historical society

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Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952

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American cartoonist and artist. From the description of Boardman Robinson cartoon, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123429645 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Boardman Robinson and his wife, Sally Robinson. From the description of Letters, 1929-1949, n.d., to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155875235 Biographical/Historical Note Ame...

Toklas family

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Dassonville, William E. (William Edward), 1879-1957

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Sterling was poet laureate of San Francisco. From the description of Bust portrait of the poet, George Sterling, facing right : matted photograph, signed by photographer, nd. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864272 ...

Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949

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b. 1878 in San Francisco, Calif.; sculptor; d. 1949. From the description of Robert Ingersoll Aitken papers, 1902-[ca. 1949]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454223 ...

Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963

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Laura Adams Armer was active in San Francisco from 1899 to 1902 in her studio in the Flood Building. She continued to work in Berkeley after her marriage to Sidney Armer in 1902. From the description of Photograph album of portraits of men, women, and children [graphic] / Laura Adams Armer. [ca. 1900-1912] (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122381807 Laura May Adams was born in 1874 in Sacramento, California. Beginning 1893, she studied painting at the Cali...

Cockroft, Lewis F.

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Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948

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American art critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [New York], 10 Apirl 1940 and 22 March 1942, to Harry [Harkness Flagler], 1940 Apr. 10 and 22 March 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564650 Royal Cortissoz (1869-1968), respected American art critic, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He trained as an architect, spending six years working at the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before embarking on his journalism career. Cortissoz served as the art...

Armer, Sidney, 1871-1962

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Farguharson, David

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Maurer, Oscar, 1870-1965

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Bremer, Anne

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Chabot family

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Beatty, W. H. (William Henry), 1835-1912

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Matthews, Arthur C.

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Lewis, Austin, 1865?-1944

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Biographical Sketch Austin Lewis was a lecturer, writer and attorney with law offices in San Francisco and Oakland. He devoted his career to so-called radical causes, such as the pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings and the repeal of California's criminal syndicalism law, and to defense of civil liberties in general, usually involving persons with little or no money. He helped organize the Northern California Branch of the American Civ...