Cartes-de-visite photographs created primarily by photographers in San Francisco and northern California, ca. 1855-1895. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting children, women, and men, in single, couple, and group sittings. Individuals in the images comprise various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Asian American and African American persons. The portraits also include persons with unique physical features, including midgets, dwarves, and giants. Occupations and group memberships represented in the portraits include butchers, circus performers, freemason, miners, musicians, sailors, and soldiers. Other images include portraits of dogs, and copy photographs of drawings, paintings, and dolls, Portraits of identified individuals include Baby Belmont, Frederick Coombs, Tom Coughlan, Tony Denier, Issac Sherwood Halsey, Little Clara Jenkins, Henrietta Lichau, and Eugenie Olanie. Other identified individuals include: Mollie Brown, a bareback somersault horse rider; A. Kerpen, a man with an eight-foot long beard; William Ingraham Kip, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California; and two scholars in academic gowns, presumably from the University of California, George F. Stone and viticulturist Emmett Rixford, Individual photographers with galleries located in San Francisco include: T. A. Brown, John M. Bryan, Alexander Edouart, Sr., Oscar Foss, John D. Godeus, Thomas Houseworth, Benjamin Franklin Howland, J. Jackson, John Lucas Kingsley, Henry Kruse, Charles Lainer, H. Luther, Charles Albert Marston, George Daniels Morse, Eadweard Muybridge, Silas Wright Selleck, Jacob Shew, William Shew, Joseph Trinidad Silva, Hector William Vaughn, Carleton E. Watkins, John A. Winberg, and Lai Yong, Corporate photographic galleries and partnerships located in San Francisco include: Bayley & Winter, Bradley & Rulofson, Brown & Otto, Chalmers & Wolfe, City Mart Photographic Gallery, Currier & Winter, Edouart & Cobb, Hamilton & Kellogg, Hoebel & Luther, Houston's Excelsior Gallery, I. W. Taber & Company, Lawrence & Houseworth, New York Gallery, Peoples Art Gallery, Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, and Wise & Prindle, Individual photographers in other locations throughout California include: Joseph P. Lowe of Auburn; H. H. Frye of Chico; George W. Valleau of Colusa; H. H. Halsey of Dutch Flat; Amasa Plummer Flaglor of Eureka; Ellison Lassell Crawford of Georgetown; S. Johnson of Gilroy; Lewis Jackson Stinson of Marysville; Edward Abraham Kusel of Oroville; L. Dowe and George Ross of Petaluma; Flave H. Gaines of Red Bluff; A. P. Bailey and John A. Todd of Sacramento; James Atkins Clayton of San Jose; H. Schoene of Santa Clara; John E. D. Baldwin of Santa Cruz; John Pitcher Spooner of Stockton; Murry Dunham and James Girard Smith of Vallejo; Issac Sherwood Halsey of Volcano; and Skelton Sanford Noble and B. F. Stevens from unidentified locations, and Photographic galleries and partnerships in other locations throughout California include: Mains & Von Hasseln of Camptonville; Bluett & Fardon and Dunham & Lathrop of Oakland; Sanders & Stinson of Marysville; and Abell & Welsh of Roseburg, Oregon
Description:
Digital version available; and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Abell, Frank George, Jr., 1844-1910., Bailey, A. P., Baldwin, John E. D., Bayley, Wilbur Fisk., Bluett, William H., Bradley, Henry William, 1813-1891., Brown, T. A., photographer., Bryan, John M., Chalmers, James Calder, Jr., Clayton, James Atkins, 1831-1896., Cobb, David., Coombs, Frederick, 1803-1874., Coughlan, Tom., Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895., Currier, Amos., Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917., Dunham, Allen Murray, ca. 1834-ca. 1924., Dunham, Murry., Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892., Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886., Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918., Foss, Oscar., Frye, H. H., Gaines, Flave H., Godeus, John D., Halsey, Henry H., Halsey, Isaac Sherwood, 1828-1895., Hamilton, Charles F., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., Jenkins, Clara., Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875., Johnston, Amasa Park, ca. 1837-1931., Kellogg, Andrew J., Kingsley, John Lucas, ca. 1939-1869., Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893., Kruse, Henry., Kusel, Edward Abraham., Lainer, Charles., Lathrop, Frank Henry., Lawrence, George S., Lichau, Henrietta., Lowe, Joseph P., Mains, James Riley., Marston, Charles Albert., Mautz, Carl., Morse, George Daniels., Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904., Noble, Skelton Sanford., Olanie, Eugenie., Prindle, Edward H., Rixford, Emmett H., Ross, George, 1832-1893., Rulofson, William Herman, 1826-1878., Sanders, Stephen Poole., Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885., Shew, Jacob, 1826-1879., Shew, William J., 1820-1903., Silva, Joseph Trinidad., Smith, James Girard, 1836-, Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917., Stevens, B. F., Stinson, Lewis Jackson., Stone, George F., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Todd, John A., 1827-1899., Valleau, George W., Vaughn, Hector William., Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916., Welsh, John Oliver, ca. 1840-ca. 1913., Winberg, John A., Winter, Daniel., Winter, Robert, ca. 1821-1893., Wise, James H., 1812-, Wolfe, Samuel Augustus., Yong, Lai., Abell & Welsh., Bayley & Winter., Bluett & Fardon., Bradley & Rulofson., Brown & Otto., City Mart Photographic Gallery., Currier & Winter., Dunham & Lathrop., Edouart & Cobb., Foss & Halsey., Freemasons, Hamilton & Kellogg., Hoebel & Luther., Houston's Excelsior Gallery., I. W. Taber & Company., Mains & Von Hasseln., Peoples Art Gallery., and Sanders & Stinson.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Photographers, Circus performers, Dolls, Dwarfs (Persons), Giants (Folklore), Miners, Musicians, Sailors, Soldiers, and Tall people
BEIN JWJ Za C739 955co: Original wrappers. Inscription of Mamie E. Bradley, Emmett Till's mother. and "Authentic pictures teken on the spot designed to meet public demand"--Cover.
BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate: Carl Van Vechten. Autograph: Langston Hughes: 4:46., BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten: 17:2; 18:2., 1923-July 1929 have subtitle: A journal of Negro life., Vols. 1-27, 1923-1949. 1v., and SML: Index to v. 1-27 is Kraus reprint 1971.
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.), author
Call Number:
JWJ A +998
Container / Volume:
1941-1947/1948
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Pictorial album
Description:
BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Langston Hughes: 1944 (page 42)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: From the Richard Merkin papers: 1945, 1947/1948., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Leroy H. Jenkins, 1945: 1945 (cover)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Stamp on covers: Dr. L.H. Jenkins, 2346 No. 25th St., Philadelphia: 1947/1948., October 1941; title from cover., and 1947-48.
Publisher:
Pyramid Club
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American men, Societies and clubs, and African American women
Autograph manuscript letter from R. B. Robinson, editor and proprietor of The Kanawha Advance in Charleston, West Virginia, to Benjamin F. Jones, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dated 1884 September 22. Robinson asks for funds to support the publication of The Kanawha Advance, "the only colored newspaper in the state." Robinson also reports that the Democrats are gaining support among African Americans in Ohio and West Virginia ahead of the 1884 presidential election, but claims that a unified republican vote among West Virginia African Americans would secure the state for the party. Enclosed is a clipping from The Kanawha Advance dated 20 September 188[4] reporting on the first Colored Men of West Virginia state convention held in Charleston on 18 September, during which Robinson was appointed chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Colored Men of West Virginia
Description:
Robert B. Robinson was an African American newspaper owner and editor born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1848, to Reverend Robert H. Robinson (1824-1909) and Mary Ann Warwick Robinson (1832-1899). With his brother Magnus L. Robinson (1852-1918), he founded the The Virginia Post in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, Robinson managed the Virginia branch of The Washington Bee, and established The Kanawha Advance newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. Robinson was involved with the Republican Party and the Readjuster Party., Benjamin Franklin Jones (1824-1903) was an iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1884-1888., In English., and Accompanied by an envelope featuring manuscript notes about the letter in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
West Virginia., United States, and West Virginia
Subject (Name):
Jones, Benjamin F. 1824-1903. (Benjamin Franklin),, Robinson, R. B. 1848- (Robert B.),, Colored Men of West Virginia., and Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
African American newspaper editors, African American newspapers, African Americans, Political activity, Presidents, Election, and Politics and government
For high or medium voice and piano., Caption title: The moony, moony man., First line: Way up in the moon, there lives a great big yaller coon; first line of chorus: De moony moony man., Title p. illustration of a photo of a minstrel chorus with inset photo of George Evans signed: White., and Page [2] (1st count) and p. [1-2] at end blank; publisher's advertisement on p. [3] at end.
Publisher:
Chas. K. Harris
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (High voice) with piano, Songs (Medium voice) with piano, Minstrel music, and African Americans
Moses Johnson was a deacon in a colored congregation
Description:
BEIN JWJ -V4 V47 W57: Autograph: Willie Gohn. Stamps: Gohn; Tottens' Music House., Staff notation., For voice and piano., "Sung with great success by Williams & Walker.", Illustrated title page signed "Starmer"., and Publisher's advertisement on unnumbered page at end.