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William Newton Meeks family photograph collection
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William Newton Meeks family photograph collection
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A collection of 68 photographs, primarily portraits, of William Newton Meeks, his wife, Abigail Livia Martha Davis, their children, and other Meeks and Davis family members, including Abigail's brother, Charles Sylvanus Davis. Also included are photographs of the Meeks' mansion (1890s) in Temescal, a neighborhood of Oakland, California, featuring an attached greenhouse or conservatory. There are also some photographs of engravings of earlier relatives, including Captain John Meeks (b. 1737), James Cooper, Susannah (Cooper) Meeks, Phineas Davis, and Isaac Davis. A group portrait depicts the wedding party of Meeks' daughter Blanche Thayer and John Heath, son of a pioneer California family, in 1889.
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William Newton Meeks papers
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts and documents related to William Newton Meeks, his wife, Abigail, and their children. There are also materials related to his brother, Robert Smelt Meeks, and to the Meeks and Davis families (including genealogical notes and charts). Additional persons represented in the collection include: Charles Sylvanus Davis (brother of Abigail), Mary E. Meeks Haydock, Constance Adelia Meeks, Edward Meeks, and Susan Molineux Meeks. The collection includes descriptions of and life in Bolivia, 1837 to 1861, Chile, 1849 to 1861, France, and San Francisco, California, including the earthquake of 1906.
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Collection of Russell-Strong family photographs
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A collection of 35 photographs and postcards of the family of Harriet Williams Russell Strong and her husband, Charles Lyman Strong. The collection contains photographs of family members including Harriet Strong, her daughters, a carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Strong's brother, Civil War General George Crockett Strong, and two photographs of his gravestone monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Some of the photographs of the Strongs were taken on the grounds of Ranchito Del Fuerte, the family ranch in Whittier, California, and there are also photographs and printed drawings of pampas grass, which they grew on the ranch. A studio portrait of Harriet Strong and her four daughters is reprinted in a newspaper clipping in the collection. Also includes cabinet card portraits of Civil War General Benjamin H. Grierson and his son First Lieutenant Charles H. Grierson. The studio portraits include imprints of E. & H.T. Anthony from a negative of Brady's National Portrait Gallery; N. H. Reed; Fitz W. Guerin; George Steckel; and Steckel Fults Studio. There is an ink drawing of a Ranchito del Fuerte window and bookshelf dated 1895 and signed "C.A. Meeks."
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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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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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Photographs of E.L. Doheny's residence and grounds, Chester Place, Los Angeles
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An album containing 117 photographs with a variety of interior and exterior views of the Doheny mansion and grounds at Chester Place, one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles. The first half of the album is exterior views, showing entrances, ivy-covered walls, plant- and palm-lined walkways, a greenhouse or conservatory, a large garage, and tennis courts. The second half of the album has interior areas, showing lavushly decorated public rooms with heavy furniture, dark woodwork, painted ceilings, animal skin rugs, statues and vases, a grand piano decorated with painted scenes, and multiple coffee/tea sets; a room with a high domed glass ceiling and marble pillars; a billiard room; a dining room shown with and without the table and chairs in place; a room decorated with Native American rugs, a long, feathered headdress, and a stuffed bald eagle; several bedrooms with varying degrees of decoration; multiple bathrooms; and a large, long, empty hall. Only one photograph includes people, a view of an office with two women.
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