Crocker, Edwin Bryant |
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Collector |
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dates
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1818-1875 |
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city
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Sacramento, |
| state | CA | | other cities | Troy, NY; South Bend, IN; |
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historical notes
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Edwin Bryant Crocker was an art collector, founder of the Crocker Museum, lawyer, California State Supreme Court Justice (1863), and served as legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad Company (company organized by Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington and Edwin's brother, Charles Crocker).
Judge Edwin B. Crocker’s collection included local and European paintings, drawings and decorative arts. The collection included work by, among others, Xavier Martinez, Thomas Hill, Rembrandt and Dürer.
Crocker was married twice, his first wife was Mary Norton Crocker Walker (born in 1848 she died in the late 1840s) he married his second wife, Margaret Eleanor Rhodes Crocker (1822-1901), on July 8, 1852 in New York.
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decades
of activity | 1860-1870
1870-1880
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| website | http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/ |
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03/22/2024 12:09:31 |
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University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library |
The Collis P. Huntington papers, 1856-1901. |
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University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library |
Biographical sketches of Edwin Bryant Crocker, ca. 1888]. |
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University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library |
Letters from Collis P. Huntington to Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, E.B. Crocker, Charles F. Crocker and D.D. Colton from August 20, 1867 to...[March 31, 1876]. [microform] |
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University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library |
California Judges [graphic - album]: Photographs from the Papers of J. Edward Johnson, 19-- |
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