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Olive Percival Collection of Photographs
Series I. California, Views
Subseries F. Various People and Locations

Visual Materials

Subseries F. Various People and Locations

Description: Includes chiefly photographs depicting various locations in the city and county of Los Angeles and environs, taken chiefly by Percival; and studio and other portraits of people taken chiefly by commercial photographers. Most of these photographs contain captions written on versos by Percival. The items in this subseries were originally separated from the collection at an earlier unknown date. The Conservation Department treated many of these photographs in the early 1990s, removing them from cardboard stock and rehousing in sleeves.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880-1930
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,); Ellis, Lemuel S., (approximately 1842-1902,)

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Percival, Olive, (1869-1945,)

Percival, Olive, (1869-1945,)

Steckel, Geo. (1864-)

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

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