Manuscripts
Busto Del Generale Garibaldi A Caprera, Eseguito Dal Sig. Bistolfi (1 item)
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Helena Modjeska portraits (6 items)
Manuscripts
6 portrait photographs of Helena Modjeska consisting of: Studio portrait of Modjeska in costume wearing a headdress, approximately 1890s. Imprint of Louis Thors, San Francisco. Studio portrait of Modjeska sitting in profile. Undated. Studio portrait of Modjeska in profile. Signed "Waters 1907." 2 copies of "Madam Modjeska at her So. Cal Home, Art Supplement with Los Angeles Times May 5th 1907." "Helena Modrezjewska-Chłapowska..." memorial card, 11.5 x 8 cm, with printed text in Polish and photograph of Modjeska as younger woman, approximately 1909.
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Photographs of Bendas in costume (2 items)
Manuscripts
Two photographs, 15 x 20.5 cm of three individuals on a lawn in Native American costume, identified on verso "W. T. Benda, and his two sisters, Jadwiga & Emily acting in a play of his improvisation at "Forest of Arden," Helen Modjeska's home. He was the 1/2 nephew of Helena Modjeska by his father Gav (Simon) Benda."
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Group family photographs and miscellaneous individuals (11 items)
Manuscripts
Includes six snapshots of group portraits of Opid family members, presumably in Poland and Southern California, as well as one card photograph, circa 1900, containing two images identified as the "Bendas." There are also five images of miscellaneous individuals including three portraits of unidentified men, presumably Opid relatives from Poland; a photograph of three hunters standing next to a dead boar; and one of three individuals identified as "The Serrano family, worked for Helena Modjeska."
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Photographs of Arden (5 items)
Manuscripts
One photograph of the Arden house exterior, 15.5 x 20 cm and a set of four photographs, 18 x 11 cm, mounted on paper, of a piano and violin, a carved table in a study, a parlor with a bison head on the mantle, and Helen Modjeska sitting in profile against a window. The set of four photographs have the name of Los Angeles photographer "Mabel Brousseau" written in pencil at lower right, and the images appear to correlate with a set registered for copyright by Brousseau on July 7, 1902 (see Library of Congress. Copyright Office, "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles ... Third Quarter, 1902", p. 631).
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Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)
Visual Materials
All photographs by Watkins date to 1877 or 1880. Includes a cabinet card photograph of the Sunny Slope Ranch winery and vineyard by photographer E.C. Bichowsky (item 15); two Carleton Watkins stereographs (items 19a and 24a); and unmounted 9.5 x 15.5 cm prints by Watkins corresponding to published Watkins' New Series stereographs: Watkins' New Series #4419 View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel (left side) and #4420 (right side) (Item 17) Watkins' New Series #4432 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 18) Stereograph number unidentified [view of Sunny Slope vineyard] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4458 Palm Trees, San Gabriel (Item 20) Watkins' New Series #4433 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 21) Watkins' New Series #4435 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 22) Stereograph number unidentified [View of road leading to Rose residence] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4431 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 24) Watkins' New Series #4439 A Bee Ranch, San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 25) Watkins' New Series #4448 Old Adobe, Mission San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 26) Watkins' New Series #4449 [Adobe building] (Item 27) Watkins' New Series #4630 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th, 1771, Cal. (Item 28) Watkins' New Series #4631 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th. 1771, Cal. (Item 29)
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