Byer i California. Byer med danske indvandrere - portraits.
Lille barn i speciel "indramning". Foto A. Woods, No. 541 Sixteenth Street, near San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, California. Kabinetkort. ES.
Brødrene Lambrecht udvandrede til Californien fra 1860'erne, ikke bare disse to, men efterhånden flere brødre og fætre, børn og børnebørn. Omkring tyve i alt. Flere af dem slog sig ned i Suisun i Solana County øst for San Francisco. Læs meget mere HER.
Ægtepar: Mr. E Daily og Mrs. Julie Daily. Brewsters Photographic Studio, 105 Oak Street, Ventura, California. Lone Køies samling. Hun evt. dansk udvandrer? Ventura ligger ud til Stillehavet, lige nord for Los Angeles. Byen hed oprindelig Buenaventura.
Fotografen hed John Calvin Brewster, 1841-1909. Han arbejdede i Ventura fra 1874-ca. 1893.
Fotografen hed John Calvin Brewster, 1841-1909. Han arbejdede i Ventura fra 1874-ca. 1893.
William Prescott Vansant was a photographer in Eureka between 1891 and 1896.
"Morbror Frederik" står der bag på billedet. Kabinetkort. |
Printed on this photo's back: E.J. Kildare & Co. Photographic Artists. Kern County, Cal. Der findes også fotos med denne tekst på bagsiden: "E. J. Kildare, Art and Photographic Rooms, Visalia and Bakersfield Cal."
E. J. Kildare (Edward James Kildare) was born in Somerville Massachusetts in 1849. He moved to California sometime around 1870. During the 1870's he did various jobs at several well known photo studios in San Francisco (i.e. Bradley & Rulofson, I. W. Taber & Co. and Thomas H. Boyd). He also apparently had a partnership in Sacramento around 1877 (The studio of Wolfe & Kildare). Kildare was in Visalia sometime between 1872 and 1875. |
In 1875 he married Clara Isabelle Skinner (Claribel Skinner). They had at least two children together. Kilare moved to Guatemala Central America, in the early 1880's... where he most likely worked for the pioneering German-born photographer Emilio (Emil) Herbruger, and later he worked with Alberto Valdeavellano. According to one Masonic publication, E.J. Kildare died around 1901 while still apparently living in Guatemala. His wife Clara was killed during the 1902 Guatemala earthquake by "falling walls while trying to escape from her house".
Kilde HER. Bakersfield er hovedbyen i Kern County. |
Kortet er sendt april 1911 fra Gerda Mortensen. Stemplet Reno. Nev. Forestiller "Santa Clara Mission Founded 1776, California.". Byen Santa Clara ligger ca. 70 km sydøst for San Francisco. Gerda Hansine Mortensen, missionær, født i Sverige. 27 år, rejst fra Danmark til Boston, Massachusetts, 6/11/1906.