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Object Description
Identifier
ov109
Title
John
Black
Creator
Dowe
Photo
;
Date Created
circa
1885
Description
Photographic
portrait
of
John
Black
.
Text
at
top
border
in
hand
of
J
.
D
.
Black
: "
Dad.
"
Text
on
back
of
photograph
in
hand
of
J
.
D
.
Black
: "
Mr
.
John
Black
Big
Pine
Cal.
"
Based
on the
photographer
and the
similar
border
, this
photograph
was
probably
made
at the
same
time
as
one
of
Rose
Black
, his
wife
.
Cf
.
item
with
identifier
"
ov100.
"
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
An
immigrant
from
French
Canada
,
John
Black
went
to
Virginia
City
,
Nevada
, in the
late
1870s
or
early
1880s
to
work
in the
mines
. There he
met
Rose
Carrol
(1861-1940)
,
whom
he
married
at
unknown
date
.
After
living
in the
mining
town
of
Bodie
,
where
he had
some
kind
of
partnership
with a
John
A.
McAlpin
, the
couple
moved
to
Bishop
,
California
, of the
Owens
Valley
, in
1886
. In
1888
John
Black
operated
a
saloon
there. In
1902
, he
moved
his
family
to
Big
Pine
,
where
he
ran
another
saloon
. From the
late
1890s
until
his
death
in
1923
,
it
is
known
that he had
mining
interests
in
Mono
County
and the
Chrysopolis
,
California
area
.
Voter
registration
lists
from
Big
Pine
in
1922
record
his
occupation
as
miner
.
John
and
Rose
Black
were the
parents
of
Rosalind
and
J
.
D
.
Black
.
John
Black
was
58
years
of
age
at his
death
. The "
Dowe
" of
Dowe
Photo
is
possibly
either
Arthur
W
.
Dowe
, a
photographer
and
portrait
artist
in
San
Francisco
from
1878
through
1897
; or
Lewis
Dowe
, a
traveling
photographer
in
California
from
1872
through
1890
and
possible
relative
of
Arthur
W
.
Dowe
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
photograph
:
sepia
;
17
x
11
cm
Institution
Center
for the
Study
of
Los
Angeles
Research
Collection
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Identifier
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
Public
Domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Black
,
John
;
Form/Genre
Cabinet
photographs
;
Portraits
;
Photographs
;
Sepia
prints
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Box
3
,
Sleeve
26
Contributors
Dowe
,
Arthur
,
W.
;
Dowe
,
Lewis
;
Description
Identifier
ov109_side1
Title
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