Portrait of Juan Batista Alvarado, ca.1840-1880

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Photographic portrait of Juan Batista Alvarado, ca.1840-1880. He can be seen from the chest up facing straight ahead. He is clean shaven, and his hair is parted on the right. He wears a jacket with a light colored shirt underneath with an upturned collar. A sort of scarf is visible around his neck. Half-tone print of a portrait.; Born at Monterey, Feb. 14, 1809. Died on the San Pablo rancho July 13, 1882. He was secretary of the Diputacion 1827-1834; member of the Diputacion 1835-1836; revolutionary governor 1835-1837; governor as interim 1837-1839; constitutional governor 1839-1842; colonel of defenses de la patria from 1847. He was married in the church of the Santa Clara Mission, August 24, 1839 to Maria Martina, Daughter of Francisco Maria Castro. The marriage was by proxy, the governor being sick at Monterey, and was celebrated before a large gathering of the California noblesse, the bridegroom being represented by his half-brother, Jose Antonio Estrada.

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Title Portrait of Juan Batista Alvarado, ca.1840-1880

Subject Alvarado, Juan Batista (subject), Civil service (lcsh), Governors (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Alvarado (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1840/1880

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1840/1880

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13409

Identifier 1744 (accession number), CHS-1744 (call number), CHS-1744 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12909 (legacy record id), chs-m13409 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13563 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12909

Unique identifier UC135413

Legacy Identifier CHS-1744.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.8 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
32.5 cm × 42.9 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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