Name/Title
Tintypes of the Meacham family, c. 1900Entry/Object ID
1999.2.2Description
Acc. No. 99.2.2 (a-g)
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda - Meacham Family
Date or Period: Circa 1900
Object: Tintypes
Description: Set of metal tintype photographic images all but #g are mounted within buff studio folders, of which the overlaying matting sections have ornamental borders printed in red or in green ink. Two images have the photographer's name stamped in lilac ink on the back of the folder: #e - Beach Gallery, Cliff House, San Francisco, and #f - Sutro Heights Gallery (W.C. Billington, Photog.), San Francisco; the other images are uncredited.
Size: #a,b,e,f: L-4 3/4 x W-3; #c,d: L-3 x W-4 3/4; #g: L-3 1/2 x W-2 1/2 in.
History of Object: Tintype images: #a-b: identical images of Rocky and Lena Perle Meacham of Alameda; #c: Rocky & Lena Perle Meacham in front of a cliff House backdrop; #d: similar to #c; #e: Lena Perle Meacham with an unidentifiable man; #f: Rocky and Lena Perle Meacham in front of a cliff House backdrop: #g: similar scene.
Acquired from; Ralph Archinal (1998)
Date: 1/2/99
