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Singleton Court photograph album
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Singleton Court photograph album
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An album of 50 photographs of Singleton Court, the residence of mining businessman John Singleton, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, California. The home was located at 2400 South Flower Street and was designed by architect Carroll H. Brown in 1887. After buying the house in 1900, Singleton hired Pasadena photographer William H. Hill to photograph the house, stable, and garden, and had the 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch prints mounted into this album. The leather cover is embossed "Singleton Court" and the first page is inscribed: "A memento, to Stella, from Singleton." The photographs include house exteriors and furnished interiors, landscaped grounds with tropical plants, a clock tower, a summer house, a palm-lined driveway, one view of a Mexican employee, a carriage, and one image of Singleton in formal attire with his two dogs, in front of the house. Singleton's handwritten captions are throughout the album.
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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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Stella Whitman Prentice album of remembrance
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