Portrait of William Davis Merry Howard, [s.d.]

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Photographic portrait of William Davis Merry Howard, [s.d.]. Howard is shown from his upper torso to his head and is looking to the right. He can be seen wearing a dark jacket, dark bowtie and white shirt. He has dark hair parted at right and a thick dark goatee. An earlier record lists the portrait under "William Davis Merry Haward".; Howard was born in Boston in 1819, came to San Francisco in 1839 as a cabin boy on the ship California, and died in San Francisco in 1856 at 38. In 1845, he formed a partnership with Henry Mellus. They bought the Hudson's Bay Company property on Montgomery Street in San Francisco and, under the firm name Mellus and Howard, did the largest business in the California. By 1848-49, they had branches in Sacramento and San Jose. The firm dissolved in 1850 and Howard retired as a rich man. He bought the eight thousand eight hundred seventy-five acre San Mateo Rancho from Cayetano Arenas. There was no better man in California than Howard and he was deservedly popular with all classes. His first wife was Mary, daughter of William R. Warren, and after her death he married Agnes, daughter of Dr. J. Henry Poett. Howard Street in San Francisco is named for him.

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Title Portrait of William Davis Merry Howard, [s.d.]

Subject Howard, William Davis Merry (subject), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Ha (file heading), Portraits -- Ho (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 18 x 13 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)

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-m19754

Identifier 11449 (accession number), CHS-11449 (call number), CHS-11449 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19579 (legacy record id), chs-m19754 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13835 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13864 (legacy record id), 1-90-282 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19579

Unique identifier UC121652

Legacy Identifier CHS-11449.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.1 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
30.8 cm × 35.3 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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