Portraits from a Yosemite excursion [graphic] : including two portraits of Chaffee and Chamberlain / collected by Alonzo Coffin. 1895-ca. 1900.

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Portraits from a Yosemite excursion [graphic] : including two portraits of Chaffee and Chamberlain / collected by Alonzo Coffin. 1895-ca. 1900.

One card-mounted photograph by George Fiske shows Alonzo Coffin, Alfred Ogg, and companions in camp on their 1895 Yosemite trip. Two real-photo postcards acquired by Coffin depict John Chaffee and Jason Chamberlain seated together on porch and among a group of elderly Big Oak Flat Road pioneers.

3 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 19 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6908486

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Ogg, Albert E.

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Fiske, George, 1835-1918

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Coffin, Alonzo, 1856-

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John Amos Chaffee and Jason P. Chamberlain were partners in the Gold Rush-era camp of Second Garrote, near present-day Groveland, in Tuolumne County, Calif. The two gained renown in the story Tennessee's Partner, by Brett Harte, who based the fictional story on the miners' celebrated friendship. From the description of Portraits from a Yosemite excursion [graphic] : including two portraits of Chaffee and Chamberlain / collected by Alonzo Coffin. 1895-ca. 1900. (University of Californ...

Chaffee and Chamberlain

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Chamberlain, J. P. (Jason P.), d.1903

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Chaffee, John Amos, 1823-1903.

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