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Bond family photograph collection
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Bond family photograph collection
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This collection contains photographs of Hiram G. Bond, his sons Marshall L. Bond and Louis W. Bond, and an album of 35 photographs of the Bond family residence "New Park," in Santa Clara, California, approximately 1896-1906. There are four loose photographs of Louis Bond in Goldfield, Nevada; Louis and Marshall Bond; and Hiram G. Bond in portraits alone and with grandchildren, 1906. Images from the Klondike gold rush depict the Bond brothers with their dog, Jack, and three other men outside their cabin in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898. There are no photographs of Jack London in this collection. There are also copies of a few commercial photographs of miners in Alaska and the Klondike. The "New Park" album (disbound) contains mounted 8 x 10-inch views of the exterior and interior of the Bond residence in Santa Clara, which has a swimming pool, windmill, and vineyard. Hiram Bond appears in one photograph, with dogs, and another shows two small children, presumably his grandchildren. An unidentified woman (probably Laura Bond) is partially cut out of two photographs.
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Letchworth family photograph collection
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This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on seven disbound scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).
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Robinson Jeffers family photograph collection
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A collection of photographs of American poet Robinson Jeffers, his family and friends, and his home he called Tor House, in Carmel, California. The bulk of the images date from approximately 1919 to 1940 and are chiefly black-and-white prints, 8 x 10 inches and smaller, of Jeffers, his wife, Una, their twin sons Donnan and Garth, and a few friends: George Sterling, C.E.S. Wood, and Blanche Matthias. The photographs belonged to Matthias, and are mostly personal, informal images taken at or around Tor House, the distinctive stone house Jeffers built on an open stretch of coast. Other items in the collection are: four color snapshots of Jeffers' grandchildren, the latest dated 1969; two copies of sketched portraits of Jeffers by M. A. Werboff; and a keepsake folder about Tor House from the series "Homes of California Authors" (Book Club of California, 1967), with an essay by Theodore M. Lilienthal.
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Letchworth family photograph collection
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This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on 7 disbound 10 x 12 inch scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).
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Robinson Jeffers family photograph collection
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A collection of photographs of American poet Robinson Jeffers, his family and friends, and his home he called Tor House, in Carmel, California. The bulk of the images date from approximately 1919 to 1940 and are chiefly black-and-white prints, 8 x 10 inches and smaller, of Jeffers, his wife, Una, their twin sons Donnan and Garth, and a few friends: George Sterling, C.E.S. Wood, and Blanche Matthias. The photographs belonged to Matthias, and are mostly personal, informal images taken at or around Tor House, the distinctive stone house Jeffers built on an open stretch of coast. Other items in the collection are: four color snapshots of Jeffers' grandchildren, the latest dated 1969; two copies of sketched portraits of Jeffers by M. A. Werboff; and a keepsake folder about Tor House from the series "Homes of California Authors" (Book Club of California, 1967), with an essay by Theodore M. Lilienthal.
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Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs
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A collection of 80 photographs centered around the Howard Edwards Huntington family, including portraits of his mother, Mary Alice Prentice Huntington, her siblings, and her parents, Edwin D. Prentice and Clarissa "Clara" Stoddard. There is one portrait of Henry Edwards Huntington, sitting at a desk, approximately 1890s. Other images are: snapshots of the Howard Huntington family in groups; portraits of Howard and Leslie Thayer Green Huntington and their children; and images of Howard's granddaughter Wendy Lee Huntington as a child. There are a few photographs of Howard's sister Marian Huntington (1883-1973) at different ages, and several snapshots of unidentified children and adults (possibly including James R. Brehm). Three photographic postcards are included, with correspondence from Marian Huntington and Leslie Green Huntington. The collection includes two pieces of ephemera: a memorial leaflet for Howard Edwards Huntington, 1922, and the birth certificate for his son, Henry E. "Ted" Huntington II (1921-1978). There is one cabinet card photograph of Princess Clara Huntington Hatzfeldt with two other women by Carleton Watkins, and two studio portraits by photographer George Steckel.
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