Image
Description
Content/DescriptionLandscape portrait of couple seated in horse drawn buggy. Possibly a view of a San Francisco homestead. Picket fence and distant hills visible in background.
Details
Title
[Couple in carriage drawn by a two-horse team.]
Published
ca. 1858-1860
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1905.16242:072--CASE
Subject (Topic)
Women
Men
Pioneers -- California
Couples
Carriages & coaches
Men
Pioneers -- California
Couples
Carriages & coaches
Type
Image
Format
Group portraits
Tintypes
Tintypes
Extent
1 photograph : tintype ; half plate, visible image 8.6 x 12.1 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
On original inventory in collection file, Zelda Mackay describes image as "... early S[an] F[rancisco residents in buggy in front of house. From an early Gold Rush family."
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: melainotype. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: Lyre Memorial (Rinhart no. 63). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.2 x 12 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif. Notes: spine label - 730 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Platemark (R): [?] / for Neff's Patent. Accompanying note (modern, by collector Zelda Mackay)): Fine ambrotype [sic] of San Francisco Homestead in the 1850's.</physfacet>;;;
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: melainotype. Mat: plain oval. Preserver: decorative.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: Lyre Memorial (Rinhart no. 63). Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 15.2 x 12 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed floral motif. Notes: spine label - 730 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Platemark (R): [?] / for Neff's Patent. Accompanying note (modern, by collector Zelda Mackay)): Fine ambrotype [sic] of San Francisco Homestead in the 1850's.</physfacet>;;;
Contents
Image 2: [Couple in carriage drawn by two horse team.] (Detail.)
Image 2: BANC PIC 1905.16242:072––DIG
Image 2: BANC PIC 1905.16242:072––DIG
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