Name/Title
Framed hand-colored photo of Amanda Bertha Sylvester, 1892Entry/Object ID
1999.134.1Description
Acc. No. 99.134.1
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda
Date: 1892
Object: Photograph, Framed
Description: Photograph hand painted with what appears to be water colors. The lower left is signed A. Heussler - Art - SF '92. Portrait protected by glare free glass in reproduction cast gesso frame with gold leaf finish. Frame has an inner liner of wine colored velvet.
Size: L 27 1/2 x W 23 1/2 inches
History: Framed portrait of Amanda Bertha Sylvester, age 17, taken in 1892. She was born in San Francisco April 1, 1875 and she married Ben Lamborn, August 21, 1985. She moved to Alameda and died October 15, 1954. The Lamborns lived their entire married life at 1428 Morton Street.
Donor: Robert Lamborn
Date: March 13, 1999
