Portrait of Mary Angeline Brians taken in Petaluma, California, in the 1880s - Sonoma County Library Digital Collections -- Colecciones Digitales de la Biblioteca del Condado de Sonoma

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Title

Portrait of Mary Angeline Brians taken in Petaluma, California, in the 1880s

Creator (Person)

["Johnson, Byron R., 1834"]

Creation Date (Original)

1880s

Description

A full length view of Mary Angeline Brians is seen.

Item Format or Genre

["sepia (color)","black-and-white photographs"]

Contributor(s) (Corporate Body)

["B. R. Johnson's Photographic Establishment"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Portraits"]

Subject (Person)

["Brians, Mary Angeline, 1846-"]

Subject (Family)

["Brians family"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection"]

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_043046

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

Portrait of Mary Angeline Brians taken in Petaluma, California, in the 1880s

Creator (Person)

["Johnson, Byron R., 1834"]

Title Statement

B. R. Johnson's Photographic Establishment

Contributor(s) (Corporate Body)

["B. R. Johnson's Photographic Establishment"]

Description

A full length view of Mary Angeline Brians is seen.

Biographical or Historical Note

Mary Angeline Brians (1846- ) was the daughter of William and Virilla Brians. She married, first John V. Gauldin in 1861, and second, Ferdinand Sicotte. Nellie Brians (1873-1942) was her daughter.

Creation Date (Original)

1880s

Item Type

["Still image"]

Item Format or Genre

["sepia (color)","black-and-white photographs"]

Number of Parts or Pages

1 photographic print

Other Physical Details

Sepia (color)

Item Physical Dimensions

25 x 20 cm

Local History and Culture Theme

["Portraits"]

Subject (Person)

["Brians, Mary Angeline, 1846-"]

Subject (Family)

["Brians family"]

Subject (Time Period)

1881-1890

Country

["United States"]

Geocoding Status

["No geocoding"]

Creator Note

Bryan R. Johnson (born in New York State around 1834), was a daguerrotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer. He was active in San Francisco, about 1856-1857 and 1862; in Benicia, Calif., 1858; in Oakland, Calif., 1860; and in Petaluma, Calif., about 1863-1867. He started in his career in California in partnership with his brother, George Howard Johnson, in the firm of Johnson Brothers, also known as the Pioneer Daguerrian Gallery, in the Freeston Building, 185 Clay Street, San Francisco. By 1867, the Johnson Brothers firm was defunct and he operated galleries on his own in Benicia, Oakland and San Francisco, before moving to Petaluma and opening Johnson's Permium Pioneer Photographic Gallery in Doyle's Block Building on Main Street (now Petaluma Boulevard North) in May 1863. In addition to cartes de visite, Johnson featured life-size photographs and "a splendid assortment of large-size photographs of some of the most celebrated paintings of the United States and Europe, and especially adapted for drawing rooms. They are much superior to first class engravings, and far cheaper." By April 14, 1864, Johnson had moved his gallery to the Phoenix Block on Main Street, where he now offered "the New Style of Card Pictures, Melaneotytpes [sic], Ivory Types, Tineotypes [sic], and Life Size Photographs, Retouched in India Ink, Wtaer and Oil Colors." A week later, he as advertising from yet a different location, in Doyle's Building, over Morris' s Cigar Store. With the exception of a six-month period in fall 1865 when Johnson studied recent improvements in photographic art in the galleries of Mathew B. Brady in New York City, he continued operating his Petaluma gallery until at least 1867.

Source of Title and Description Note

Title assigned by cataloger.

Reproduction Details (Physical Items)

Reproduced from original print by The Lab (400 Tesconi Circle, Santa Rosa, California), October 2014.

Source note

The photograph was taken from an album which originally belonged to Virilla Adams Brians of Guerneville (1818-1886). The album is in the process of being cataloged.

Original Collection Name

["Brians and Long collection"]

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Local System Identifier

1498378

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_043046

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection"]

Digital Collections Area Group(s)

["Local History & Culture"]

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565024873977 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 43046)

Item Call Number(s)

ARCHIVES PHOTO 43046

Shelving Location of Physical Item(s)

Temporarily (4/13/17) Closed Stacks, Santa Rosa Central Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Copyright Statement

The Sonoma County Library makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images and can claim only physical ownership of the image(s) described in this records. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including, but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the Library. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at http://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo

Project Affiliation

Sonoma County Tourism Grant (2014-2015)

Contributing Organizations

Grant provided to the Sonoma County Library through the Sonoma County Advertising Program.

Fiscal Sponsor

Sonoma County Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (http://www.sonomalibrary. org); Sonoma County Fair & Exposition, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA 95402 (http://www.sonomacountyfair. com/) 1350 Bennett Valley Road,

Date Digitized

2014

Digitizing Agency

Luna Imaging, Inc. (2702 Media Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065-1733 http://www.lunaimaging.com)

Archival File Data Quality

["High resolution master file image (600 ppi)"]

Acquisition Type

["Gift"]

Date of Acquisition

2015

Provenance

Originally owned by Virilla Adams Brians and passed to daughter Martha Brians Long. Received by Martha's daughter Justena Long Kelly, passed to her daughter Thelma Kelly Moulthrop and received by Thelma's daughter Kathy Moulthrop Minges

Filename

cstr_pho_043046.jp2

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