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Melone family photograph album.
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Title:
Melone family photograph albumCreator/Contributor:
Melone, Harry C. (Henry Clinton), 1879-1963, creatorAbstract:
Snapshots of home, family, friends and pets at the Oak Knoll estate. Captions indicate that the home was built ca. 1866 for
R.B. Woodward by architect "Gaynor, of Palace Hotel fame." Includes some views relating to Harry Melone's student days at
San Francisco's Trinity School.
Date:
1891 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWoodward, Robert B -- Homes and haunts -- Pictorial works
Melone, Drury -- Family -- Pictorial works
Melone, Harry C. (Henry Clinton) -- 1879-1963 -- Pictorial works
Malone family -- Pictorial works
Oak Knoll (Napa County, Calif. : Residence) -- Pictorial works
Trinity School, San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Dwellings -- California -- Napa County -- Photographs
Families -- California -- Napa County
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Inscribed: Harry C. Melone. A birthday gift from sister Ethel. Oak Knoll. 1891.
An additional album owned by Harry C. Melone, containing half-stereograph views by Eadweard Muybridge of Woodward's Gardens
in San Francisco, has been added to the Lone Mountain College collection of stereographs, as volume 6 (BANC PIC 1971.055--ALB
v.6).
Henry C. (Harry) Melone (1879-1963) was the son of Drury Melone and Sarah B. Woodward, whose residence (as listed in the San
Francisco city directory for 1892) was Oak Knoll, Napa County. Sarah B. (Woodward) Melone's father was Robert Blinn Woodward
(1824-1879) of Woodward's Gardens in San Francisco, who originally owned the Woodward/Melone home Oak Knoll.
Type:
graphicCyanotypes.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
55 photographs in 1 album : black and white and cyanotype prints ; album 17 x 21 cm
Language:
English