Historical Portrait
Mrs. Maurice Kremer (Matilda Newmark), Victorian Portrait
Archive record
Historical portrait of Mrs. Maurice Kremer (née Matilda Newmark) from 1885 Los Angeles. Public-domain Victorian-era photograph from digital archive collection.
About this photograph
This portrait shows Matilda Newmark Kremer, wife of Maurice Kremer, photographed in Los Angeles in 1885. The photographer is not identified.
The record's subject terms link the photograph to Jewish historical collections in Southern California. During the late nineteenth century, studio portraits served multiple purposes for immigrant and established families alike, marking occasions and creating formal records for relatives.
The Kremer and Newmark families were part of Los Angeles's Jewish community during a period when the city remained relatively small. The formal style and careful composition reflect typical Victorian portrait conventions of the mid-1880s.
The photograph survives through a California historical society and reached this digital collection through California Revealed, a statewide program that digitises materials from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. Items tagged with this programme name indicate where digitisation occurred rather than the photograph's original provenance.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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