Content/DescriptionBust length portrait, wearing a white lace collar and gold jewelry (brooch).
Title
[Mrs. C.C. Beekman of Jacksonville, Oregon.]
Published
ca. 1855-ca. 1870
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1905.16242:103--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : opalotype ; quarter plate (in whole plate case), visible image 11.4 x 8.8 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Cover glass painted blue with black trim for a mat effect.
<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Plate: milk glass or porcelain, face and jewelry slightly hand colored. Mat: pebble-grained board with oval window. Cover glass: painted?</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">Type: case. Material: leather (pigskin) over wood. Dimensions: 23 x 18 cm. Pad: purple velvet. Notes: spine label - 434 (from prior owner).</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Letter fragment adhered to cardboard backing panel bears date 1867. Label (typewritten, presumably by collector Zelda Mackay): Beautiful porcelain photograph of Mrs. C.C. Beeckman, wife of pioneer banker of Jacksonville. Oregon. Taken about 1860 by Peter Britt, first photographer of Oregon, who crossed the plains in 1852. Gift of his son and daughter, Emil and Mollie Britt from the Britt Museum, Jackson-/ ville, Oregon.</physfacet>;;;
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