Portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891

Photographic portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891. He is pictured from his knees to his head and is standing with his arm resting on the back of a chair at left. His other hand is on an ivory cane at right. He is wearing a dark suit with a dark vest decorated with diamond buttons. He has a thick white beard and mustache, and his white hair is thinning. His light skin blends in with his facial hair. Picture file card reads "Pierce seems to have acquired the negative or print from Thomas Temple, son of Walter Temple".