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Olive Percival Collection of Photographs
Series I. California, Views
Subseries E. Miscellaneous Views

Visual Materials

Subseries E. Miscellaneous Views

Description: Includes photographs depicting Mission San Luis Rey; Pershing Square; the home of Margaret Fowler, who was one of Percival's best friends (Items 169-170); the Friday Morning Club House (Item 171); and Percival on horseback with a woman in Eaton's Canyon, July 4, 1894. Also includes photographs of a man and boy in San Gabriel, a house in which Percival stayed in San Francisco, a girl reading on a porch in Los Angeles, two portraits of a young Percival, dressed up for parties, one of which has a long caption on verso by Percival (Items 750-752, 754-755); and one photograph of Percival with her mother (Box 2, Item 753).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1894-1927
Call number: photCL 217
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Kreider, Florence G. Moore, (1878-1963,)

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Ellis, Lemuel S., (approximately 1842-1902,)

Percival, Olive, (1869-1945,)

Percival, Olive, (1869-1945,)

Steckel, Geo. (1864-)

Waite, C. B. (1861-1927,)

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