Content/DescriptionHalf length portrait, wearing a standing collar.
Title
[Horatio G. Finch (b. 1819)]
Published
1855
Full Collection Name
Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, circa 1845-circa 1870
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1999.021--CASE
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; mammoth plate, visible image 29.8 x 25 cm., plate 32 x 27 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
This "mammoth plate" portrait may be the largest surviving daguerreotype from California, and is the largest known by R.H. Vance.
Biographical NoteHoratio G. Finch, born in 1819 in Hamilton Co. Indiana, came to California in 1849 aboard the steamship Panama. After mining on the American River and at Big Bar, he later lived in Benicia and San Francisco. Following the Civil War, he became a farmer in Solano County.
<physfacet label="Container or Case Note">[Private] -- Type: frame. Notes: modern frame discarded. Original backing board and mat retained and housed separately.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Image Package Note">Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass. Mat: plain oval board.</physfacet>;;;<physfacet label="Marks, Inscriptions and Accompanying Material">Paper label (in hand contemporary with piece, on verso of plate): Horatio G. Finch 1855 / by R.H. Vance / San Francisco Cala. Paper label (handwritten, on backing board): Please send me / to my brother / Hiram G. Finch. / Nobelsville / Hamilton County / Indiana. / or to / Fabius M. Finch / Franklin / Johnson County / Indiana. On backing board (handwritten in pencil in early hand, verso): H.G. Finch / 1855. Pencilled inside mat (in early hand): Finch.</physfacet>;;;
Provenance
ProvenancePreviously in the collection of Abraham Stransky.
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