Historical Portrait

People: Pio Lafranchi portrait in suit, 1907

1907·Source: internet_archive·View original ↗·Public Domain

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Archive record

1907 portrait of Pio Lafranchi, Swiss immigrant to California, wearing dark suit with mustache. Public domain historical photograph from Novato area.

About this photograph

This 1907 portrait shows Pio Lafranchi, a Swiss immigrant to California, photographed in the Novato area. He wears a dark suit and mustache in the formal studio style of the period.

The photograph belongs to the era when roughly 20 million people arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920. Studio portraits marked these journeys, made either at home to leave with family or soon after arrival to send back as proof of safe passage and employment.

The photographer is unknown. The image has been digitised through California Revealed, a statewide program that makes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available online.

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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