Hiram Abiff. / The "Widow's Son--Grand Master of Ancient Masonry. [Silver albumen cabinet print, copy of drawing]
name: label: Photographer
content: Shew, William
label: Publisher
content: Pacific Art Union
label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Freemasonry
label: Topic
content: Friendly societies
label: Topic
content: Masons (Secret order)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Shew, William
label: Publisher
content: Pacific Art Union
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Fraternal Orders
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Fraternal Orders / Business Records, Keepsakes, and Other
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Silver albumen on paper., 6-1/2" x 4-1/4".)
phystech: label: Condition
content: Image faded. Horizontal crease in center; damage to both photograph and mount.
unitdate: label: Date
content: [19th century.]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Cabinet photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints -- 19th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1870-1880 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen
label: Genre/Form
content: Cabinet photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: On verso: "WM. SHEW'S / NEW / PHOTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT. / 145 Kearny Street, / SAN FRANCISCO." On recto under photograph: "Photographic copy of the Original Life-size Pencil painted Portrait, executed by those celebrated Spirit Artists, WELLA and / PET ANDERSON, when in the unconscious 'trance' condition. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, ... by the PACIFIC ART UNION of San Francisco, Cal. inc. [sic] March 1874."