Content/DescriptionFull length portrait of a baby, seated on a wooden chair, wearing a dress with gold buttons down the front, and gold jewelry (necklace). Arm of adult woman[?] on the left. Identified by collector as a daughter of S.C. Hastings who founded the Hastings Law School in San Francisco. However, it is unclear whether the child is a girl or a boy. Mackay also identifies sitter as the same daughter pictured in 1905.16242:70.
Title
[Infant child of Serranus Clinton Hastings.]
Published
ca. 1854
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1905.16242:017--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; sixth plate, visible image 6.6 x 5.4 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Plate: face, buttons and necklace hand coloerd.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Motif: floral. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 cm. Pad: red velvet with embossed motif. Notes: patent mat. Notes: spine label - 211 (from prior owner). Blackened well (ambrotype case).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Blind stamped on mat (LL): R.H. Vance / San Francisco. (LR): Cutting's Pat. / July 4 & 11, 1854 [indicates mat was made for ambrotype not daguerreotype]. Modern label (handwritten by collector Zelda Mackay): Child of Hastings Family of Calif. Law College.</physfacet>;;;
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