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

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

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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.

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

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Selleck, Silas.

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Online Archive of California

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Hamilton, Charles, F.A.S.L.

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Shew, William J., 1820-1903

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Charles James was appointed Collector of Customs for San Francisco in 1864. From the description of [Charles James [graphic] : Collector of Customs in San Francisco] / [photographed by William Shew]. [between 1864 and 1866] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 255983450 California pioneer of 1849 and editor of the California Farmer, published by the Pacific Rural Press. From the description of [James Lloyd LaFayette Warren posed with Californ...

Nichols, Sheldon. K., photographer

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Shaw and Johnson.

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Mackay, Zelda, 1893-1985.

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Zelda Mackay (1893-1985), born Zelda Onita Powell, was a lifelong collector of photographs of California and the West, and of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes from all locations. Her collection of cased photographs not acquired by The Bancroft Library were purchased by the George Eastman House of Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Zelda Mackay collection of daguerreian era photography in California [graphic]. ca. 1845-1865. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat r...

Johnson, G. H. (George Howard)

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Summerhays, photographer.

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Ford, J. M. (James May), b. 1827.

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Britt, Peter, 1819-1905

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Vance, Robert H., 1825-1876

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