Name/Title
A cabinet card studio portrait of two children, Flegonte Borgia, Los Angeles, ca. 1905.Entry/Object ID
2012.685.1.1Description
A cabinet card studio portrait of two children, Flegonte Borgia, Los Angeles, ca. 1905. The image shows a girl, about age six or seven, wearing a white dress, white bow in her hair, and dark hose and boots with one hand on a side chair with a floral bouquet on it and the other around the shoulder of her brother, about age four. He wears a dark jacket, light shirt, a dark cravat and dark hose and boots. The photographer, Flegonte Borgia was from Fara, Italy, northeast of Rome and migrated via Genoa to New York, arriving in June 1899. He lived in Newark, New Jersey and worked as a photographer before moving to California and was working in Los Angeles by 1904, remaining in business there until at least 1913. The photographer's cartouche is at the bottom right of the matte. With stains possibly from oil and abrasions, the condition is good.Lexicon
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
Cabinet Card Photographs
