[Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].

Description

Title: [Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].
Creator: Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899, compiler
Published / Created: [circa 1874]
Publication Place: San Francisco, California
Abstract: A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an identification number between 875 and 1474. Names and identification numbers also appear in the margin of the album's pages
Description: Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December.
Captions in English.
Captions in the negative.
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Embossed on front cover: "T. G. Cockrill / Chief of Police / Chinese no. 3".
Provenance: Purchased from Michael Vinson on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2011.
Extent: 599 photographs in 1 album : photographs 8 x 6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Photograph albums
Photographic prints
Photographs
Material: albumen prints ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): California
California.
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name): Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899.
San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic): Chinese
Chinese Americans
Identification photographs
Police
Race relations
Social conditions
Subjects: Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899
San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department
Chinese > California > Pictorial works
Chinese Americans > California > Pictorial works
Identification photographs > California
Police > California
California > Race relations
California > Social conditions > 19th century
San Francisco (Calif.)

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Citation: Thomas Guarvarius Cockrill, Album of Identification Photographs of Chinese Men. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.