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Title: Letchworth Family Photograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1906
Collection Number: photCL 540
Creator:
Letchworth Family
Extent:
33 photographs in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: 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, as well as one additional
loose print of an audience to a 1906 Pasadena horse show. The images 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.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on July 1, 2014.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
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obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Letchworth Family Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
These photographs were received as part of a gift of Peter and Sally Letchworth in 2011, along with additional photographs
and blueprints of the Letchworth family's "Penjerrick" residence
in Covina, California, designed by architect Reginald D. Johnson, which were added to the Huntington's Reginald D. Johnson
Collection.
Pierre Edson Letchworth (1876-1924) and Sarah Evans Letchworth (1875-1925), both originally of Buffalo, New York, married
in 1898 and had two children Pierre Edson Letchworth Jr. (1899-1991) and William Pryor
Letchworth (1902-1959). The family visited Southern California in the early 1900s, before purchasing an orange grove in Covina,
California, and moving there permanently in 1910. In 1913, architect Reginald D. Johnson
built a residence, known as "Penjerrick Ranch," on the Covina property for the Letchworth family.
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).
Related materials in the Huntington Library
The collection is arranged numerically according to the item numbers supplied by the cataloger.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Recreation -- California, Southern -- Photographs.
Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs.
Pasadena (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Photographs.
Photograph albums.