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Photograph album of Domingo Rabasa and family members on Huntington Library grounds

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Description: An album of personal snapshots, studio portraits, photo postcards, and some clippings compiled by Domingo Rabasa (b. 1900 Spain - d. 1985 Los Angeles), identified as the valet for the household of Susan Dominquez Del Amo and Dr. Gregorio Del Amo at 1119 Westchester Place, Los Angeles. Photographs include many views of The Huntington Library gardens and grounds, including the North Vista, the Shakespeare Garden, the exterior of the Billiards room and office; and fountains and statuary throughout the grounds; group outings; cemeteries, including tombstones, one marking Bernardo Chaler (1886-1919) identified as the brother-in-law of Domingo Rabasa.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1922
Call number: photCL 599
Provenance: Purchased from Annie Assefa, August 2017.

Del Amo family and business records

Manuscripts

This collection contains two prospectuses: Rancho San Pedro and Del Amo Industrial Park. It includes an autograph book to Gregorio del Amo, Madrid, 1931. There are also photographs of Colegio Mayor Jaime del Amo in Madrid, Spain. There is one letter from Robert G. Breyer to Jaime del Amo accompanied with four photographs of the Del Amo Center. Finally, the collection includes a newspaper clipping describing how Don Wilson and Milton Kauffman presented a one-million-dollar check to Jaime del Amo as first payment for purchase of the del Amo property on May 15, 1955.

mssHM 83501 (a-e)

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Photographs of Henry E. Huntington, Huntington family members, and Huntington Library buildings and grounds

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A group of photographs of Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington and other Huntington family members, and 35 views of the Huntington Library's buildings, grounds, mausoleum, statues and outdoor sculpture in San Marino, California. There are also 4 design drawings of an outdoor sculpture (a tempietto) in the Rose Garden that holds the statue "L'Amour Captif de la Jeunesse" ("Love, Captive of Youth"). There are 15 portraits of Henry E. Huntington at various ages, approximately 1890s-1926, including standing in front of the Library's bronze doors; standing outside the Library with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, 1926; and sitting at a desk with a group of men standing behind him (photOV 11200-11207.2). There are four photographs of Collis P. Huntington (photOV 11208, 11208.1, 11210, 11249), which includes a view of him walking alongside a train, possibly next to his private railroad car, in 1900 (photOV 11249). Caroline Huntington Holladay, Harriet Huntington Doerr and Leslie Huntington Bramhall are seen at the launching of the S.S. Henry E. Huntington in 1944 (photOV 11209-11209.1), and there are photographs of paintings of Henry E. and Arabella Huntington by Oswald Birley, 1924 (photOV 11206, 11213). Views of the Huntington Library grounds include aerial photographs (approximately 1921); a wrought iron gate; desert garden; lily ponds; road near the Japanese garden; a reservoir; rose garden and arbor; the statues "Love, Captive of Youth" and "Neptune"; a fountain, and the mausoleum. Buildings seen are the Library, in 1920, and four views of the construction of the Huntington residence, approximately 1909-1910, by William Hertrich.

photOV 11200-11249

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Photograph album of Huntington residence, gardens, grounds and statues, San Marino, California

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Includes some views of Henry E. Huntington on grounds and a color postcard of a dirigible flying over the Huntington mansion.

photCL 285

Yorba family burial grounds, Rancho Santa Ana

Visual Materials

Image of a monument that says "Yorba" and other tombs and headstones in a cemetery identified as the Yorba family burial grounds on Rancho Canon de Santa Ana (present day Yorba Linda, California).

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Jeannette Carolyn Wilson photograph album of the Huntington Library, and other material

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An album of about 200 photographs, 1942 to 1949, compiled by a former Huntington Library employee, Jeannette Carolyn Wilson, containing many snapshots of employees at the library and elsewhere. Subjects include: people standing outside the library; the tea room; aviary building; oak trees; employees playing cards and socializing; staff Christmas parties; snow on the grounds in January, 1949; women with cameras, taking photographs; and library staff loading books to be shipped offsite for safekeeping during World War II. The album also has some personal vacation photographs, a few clippings about the Huntington, and three letters from reference librarian Mary Isabel Fry, some with news of the Huntington. Wilson probably took many of the photographs, and possibly appears in the album. Though most people are unidentified, some recognizable library employees are: Carey Bliss, Leslie Bliss, Lyle H. Wright, Margaret Meracle, Robert Glass Cleland, Mary Isabel Fry, William Parish, Graydon Spalding, and Erwin F. Morkisch.

photCL 625

Huntington grounds south of the library building after snowfall, January 11, 1949

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The library building and grounds of the San Marino ranch after a rare southern California snowfall. MS notes on verso read "Jan. 11, 1948" and "Huntington grounds." Date should read January 11, 1949.

photCL 107 folder 19 (9)

Photograph album of Domingo Rabasa and family members on Huntington Library grounds

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