Name/Title
A cabinet card studio portrait of former California governor J. Neely Johnson, Bradley and Rulofson, San Francisco, ca. 1869Entry/Object ID
2013.815.1.1Description
A cabinet card studio portrait of former California governor J. Neely Johnson, Bradley and Rulofson, San Francisco, ca. 1869. The image shows Johnson from head to torso. He wears a dark suit jacket, white shirt and dark necktie. He has thinning hair on top and a long salt and pepper mustache and goatee. On the reverse is the photographers' cartouche, an ink inscription with the subject's name, and a pencil inscription reading, "Gov. California / 1856-1858." A label identified the photo as from a historical portrait collection, H.W. Fay, in DeKalb, Illinois. With minor staining, soiling, foxing, acid burn, abrasions on the edge, the overall condition is good to fair.Lexicon
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
Cabinet Photographs
