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Theresa Sletton photograph album of Topanga Canyon, Echo Mountain and Mount Wilson

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A disbound album of 20 album pages and accompanying loose photographs, comprising 153 photographs, 2 pieces of artwork and 2 newspaper clippings. Theresa Sletton was the first schoolteacher in Topanga, California, and her photograph album focuses on her and other early residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913. The photographs show Theresa Sletton in her cabin and on walks; the school and students; the school garden; the town post office; residents and their homes; "Luther Ranch" and beekeeping; a "prisoner's camp" and workers doing road building. The album also has a few views of Sletton and others at Echo Mountain and Mount Wilson, and there is one view of a "trackless trolley" in Laurel Canyon. Many photographs have handwritten captions by Sletton. People identified in the album: William Reynolds; Stella McAllister; Bertha Corbett Melcher (artist who originated the "Sunbonnet Babies"); Morton Allen; Norris Julian; David Santa Maria; William Santa Maria; Mr. Vivian Butler; Herbert Land; Bertha Chase; Florence and Tom Cheney; James A. Craig (postmaster); Mr. Lugo; Cal Cheney; Rev. Frederick Post and Mr. Dolores Trujillo. Identifications are mostly from Sletton's handwritten captions and a few from notes that accompanied the album.
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Date
approximately 1913
Call number
photCL 555
Creator
Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Ernest Marquez, January 2014.
Associated people
Allen, D. C. (1887-1966,)
Bailey, Chas. Z. (1819-1903,)
Bartlett, Adelbert, (1843-1916,)
Bierstadt, Charles, (1873-1945,)
Blanchard, James B., (approximately 1842-1902,)
Bonine, Elias A., (1825-1900,)
Bonine, R. (1879-1963,)
Brewster, John Calvin, (1853-1921,)
Brigandi, Philip, (1842-1914,)
Clarke, William M., (1827-1903,)
Davis, James M., (1829-1915,)
Ellis, Lemuel S., (1850 or 1851-1937,)
Fletcher, W. H. (1843-1942,)
Frese, Adolf, (1833-1903,)
Godfrey, W. M. (1827-1909,)
Haley, George W., (-1888,)
Haynes, F. Jay (1830-1904,)
Hazard, George Washington, (1834-1910,)
Hazeltine, M. M. (approximately 1845-)
Houseworth, Thomas, (1861-1946,)
Jackson, B. D., (1838-1894,)
Jackson, William Henry, (1860-1949,)
Johnson, C. W. J. (1861-)
Kilburn, B. W. (1830-1912,)
Morrison, E. G., (active 1883-1884,)
Muybridge, Eadweard, (1839-1915,)
Parker, F. (Francis), (1861-1927,)
Parker, Joseph C. (1829-1916,)
Payne, H. T., (1879-1932,)
Pierce, C. C. (1844-)
Pierce, Edward W.,
Plunkett, Bob,
Putnam, J. R.,
Rea, William J.,
Reilly, John James,
Rieder, M.,
Rile, H. F.,
Schumacher, Frank G.,
Stanton, Thomas E.,
Taber, I. W.
Tuttle, W. N.,
Tyler, O. E.,
Varela, A. C.
Waite, C. B.
Watkins, Carleton E.,
Weaver, M. F.
Wesner, H. B.,
Westervelt, James D.,
Withey, Henry F.,
Associated organizations
California Art Foto Company,
Charles Beseler Co.,
Continent Stereoscopic Company,
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm),
Ellis & Son (Los Angeles, Calif.),
F. H. Rogers & Co.,
Garden City Photo Co.,
Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.),
Griffith & Griffith,
H.C. White Co.,
Hayward & Muzzall,
Jarvis (Firm : Pasadena, Calif.),
Kelley & Chadwick,
Keystone View Company,
Payne, Stanton & Co.,
Powell Press Service,
Putnam & Valentine,
Spence Air Photos (Firm),
Strohmeyer & Wyman,
Underwood & Underwood,
Universal Photo Art Co.,
Webster & Albee,
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