Carl Mautz collection of Peter Britt photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 865
Content Description
171 carte-de-visite photographs; 53 cabinet photographs; 61 tintypes, including 1 cased double portrait; 1 cased ambrotype; 20 stereographs; 10 mounted prints; 4 photographic postcards; 5 photographs; and printed material by or relating to photographer Peter Britt, circa 1850s-circa 2000. Collected by Carl Mautz. Photographs are chiefly studio portraits of men, women, and children, including Peter Britt, Amalia Grobb Britt, Amalia Britt, and Emil Britt. Stereographs in the collection depict outdoor spaces including Crater Lake, Mount Shasta, Rogue River; the Britt household; and Jacksonville, Oregon.
Dates
- circa 1850s-circa 2000
- Majority of material found within circa 1850s-circa 1880s
Creator
- Mautz, Carl (Collector)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Carl Mautz Collection of Peter Britt Photographs is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
From the collection of Carl Mautz. Purchased from Michael Vinson on the Winlock William Miller, Jr. Memorial Fund and Thomas W. Streeter Fund, 2013.
Arrangement
Organized into five series: I. Cased Photographs and Tintypes, circa 1850s. II. Stereographs, circa 1860s-circa 1870s. III. Cartes de Visite, circa 1870s-circa 1880s. IV. Cabinet Photographs, 1854-1898. V. Other Photographs and Material, circa 1860s-circa 2000.
Extent
1.88 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
171 carte-de-visite photographs; 53 cabinet photographs; 61 tintypes, including 1 cased double portrait; 1 cased ambrotype; 20 stereographs; 10 mounted prints; 4 photographic postcards; 5 photographs; and printed material by or relating to photographer Peter Britt, circa 1850s-circa 2000. Collected by Carl Mautz. Photographs are chiefly studio portraits of men, women, and children, including Peter Britt, Amalia Grobb Britt, Amalia Britt, and Emil Britt. Stereographs in the collection depict outdoor spaces including Crater Lake, Mount Shasta, Rogue River; the Britt household; and Jacksonville, Oregon.
Peter Britt
Peter Britt (1819-1905) of Obstalden, Switzerland, was a portrait painter and photographer, meteorologist, and horticulturalist. Britt was an early settler in the Rogue Valley of Oregon Territory, building a log cabin in Jacksonville in 1852. He opened P. Britt’s Photograph and Daguerreotype Room, a photography studio, in Jacksonville in 1856. Following his purchase of a stereo camera in the 1860s, Britt became an outdoor and gallery photographer, taking pictures of the Oregon Coast, the North Coast of California, the Siskiyou Mountains, the Rogue River, the Klamath River, the Cascades, and Crater Lake.
Britt married Amalia Grob (1822-1871) in 1861. The couple had three children: Emil Britt (1862-1950), Arnold Britt (1864-1864), and Amalia Britt (1865-1954). Emil Britt became a photographer, working with his father beginning in 1883.
Britt married Amalia Grob (1822-1871) in 1861. The couple had three children: Emil Britt (1862-1950), Arnold Britt (1864-1864), and Amalia Britt (1865-1954). Emil Britt became a photographer, working with his father beginning in 1883.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards. For more information, please refer to the Beinecke Manuscript Unit Processing Manual.
- Ambrotypes (photographs)
- Britt, Amalia Grob, 1822-1871 -- Portraits
- Britt, Amalia, 1865-1954 -- Portraits
- Britt, Emil, 1862-1950 -- Portraits
- Cabinet photographs
- Card photographs (photographs)
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Cased photographs
- Children -- West (U.S.) -- Portraits
- Crater Lake (Or.) -- Pictorial works
- Jacksonville (Or.) -- Pictorial works
- Men -- West (U.S.) -- Portraits
- Oregon -- Pictorial works
- Photographers -- Oregon -- 19th century
- Photographic postcards
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Portrait photography -- 19th century
- Postcards
- Rogue River (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.) -- Pictorial works
- Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) -- Pictorial works
- Stereographs
- Studio portraits
- Tintypes (prints)
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- Portraits
Creator
- Mautz, Carl (Collector)
- Britt, Peter, 1819-1905 (Photographer)
Source
- Michael Vinson (Bookseller)
- Title
- Guide to the Carl Mautz Collection of Peter Britt Photographs
- Author
- Sarah Lerner
- Date
- January 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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