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Title	Portrait of Colis P. Huntington, ca.1889
Description	Photograph of a portrait of Colis P. Huntington, ca.1889. He can be seen from the chest up facing forward while looking slightly to the left. He is bald with hair over his ears. He has a short full beard and moustache. He is wearing a three-piece suit with the double-breasted overcoat buttoned nearly to the top. Huntington was a rags to riches entrepreneur, railroad magnate, pioneer developer, one of original founders of CPR, a powerful 19th-century lobbyist, who financially aided the Tuskegee Institute. Photoprint reads: "build [...] P.R.R.".
Subject	Huntington, Colis P.
Subject (file heading)	Portraits -- Huntington, Colis P.
Subject (lcsh)	Businessmen Men
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1889
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1889
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm., 21 x 17 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	1973
Call number	CHS-1973
Microfiche number	1-90-289
Legacy record ID	chs-m13711; USC-1-1-1-13866
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-1973
Archival file	chs_Volume83/CHS-1973.tiff

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