Dining room, Patton residence, San Marino

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  Dining room, Patton residence, San Marino

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  A view of the dining room in the west end of the Patton residence in San Marino. There is a heavy, oval-shaped wooden table slightly left of center surrounded by four chairs with cushioned seats. Four more matching chairs are lined up against the wall in the background, below a painted portrait of a woman, and in front of a small fireplace. There is a chandelier hanging over the table, a screen decorated with a peacock on the right, and a heavy wooden sideboard on the left.

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  Entrance hall, Patton residence, San Marino

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  A view of the entrance hall of the Patton residence in San Marino. A staircase runs along the wall on the right, and a large carpet covers the wooden floor in the center and left. There is a heavy wooden table in the center of the carpet with three glass or crystal vases on top. A cabinet of curios is set against the staircase between two chairs, and a small narrow table is against the wall on the left. There is white wooden paneling along the lower half of the walls and a decorative palm-patterned wallpaper on the upper half. Portraits and maps are hung in frames along the walls, including one of General George S. Patton, Jr., wearing his World War II uniform and helmet and holding a pair of binoculars, in the center.

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  Dining room in the Huntington residence

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  In the foreground is a table with six chairs around it, on an area rug. Another four chairs are arranged against the wall. The paintings hanging on the wall are all by George Romney: (from left to right) Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789), Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791), and Jeremiah Miles (1780-1783). Above the table is a metal and glass chandelier with electric candles. MS note on verso reads "HEH residence as art gallery: dining room." Stamp on verso reads "Keystone Photo Service, 1231 Olive Street, Los Angeles, Cal." This photograph appeared in Pictorial California and the Pacific in November 1930.

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  Patton's office, San Marino residence

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  A view of General George Smith Patton, Junior's office in the family house in San Marino. There is a low table in the center of the room covered with books, bowls, some papers, a bottle, and a lamp, and a desk with several drawers and niches against the wall just left of center. Three large safes are against the wall just right of center, with a tall wooden filing cabinet just to the right of them. There is a fireplace on the far left, two windows with curtains set in the walls, and three additional chairs scattered around the room. The walls are unfinished, and an unadorned light bulb is mounted in the center of the ceiling.

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  Living room, Patton residence, San Marino

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  A view of the living room of the Patton family house in San Marino, California. There is a large, paisley patterned carpet on the wooden floor, wood paneling along the walls, and a geometrically patterned ceiling. There is a low, floral-patterned sofa on the left, a black leather armchair, and a dark-colored velvet armchair, as well as a long narrow end table with a lamp, framed portraits, and flowers on top. The lower two-thirds of the walls are lined with bookcases, and there is a landscape painting hanging above the bookcase in the center. There are family photographs and knickknacks along the top of the bookcases. A pair of swords are mounted on the wall on the right, behind a portrait of a soldier, probably the first George Smith Patton, a Confederate Colonel who died during the Civil War.

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  Dining room in the Huntington residence

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  A table with six chairs around it, with three more chairs arranged against the wall. Four women stand in pairs looking at the portraits on the walls. The paintings are, from left to right, George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Emily Anderson: Little red riding hood (circa 1821), and Sir Martin Archer Shee's Frances (Woodis) Borlase, later Frances Grenfell, and Pascoe George Norman Grenfell (circa 1804). MS notes on verso read "HEH residence as art gallery: dining room" and "L.A. Chamber of Commerce."

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