Photograph album of members of the University Club of Los Angeles, ca. 1910

Summary

Creators:

University Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Abstract:

Album, ca. 1910, belonging to Roy Jones, containing photographs of members of the University Club of Los Angeles.

Extent:

1album (58 photographic prints) : matte collodion, 25 x 43 cm (album)

Language:

Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.

Background

Scope and content:

Included are studio portraits, signed "Prince L.A.," of the following members: Dr. Frank D. Bullard; Dr. James T. Fisher; Dr. Muller; William Chambers; Russ Avery; Dr. John R. Haynes; Dr. C.C. Browning; W.W. Brier; Dr. B.F. Church (resigned); Dr. Paul Allen Adams; Edwin L. Hutchins; Harry L. Dearing; Nathan D. Whitman; Dr. Charles E. Bacon; A.C. Wheat; Edwin J. Loeb; James M. Hunter; Kasson Avery; F.E. Rich; James W. Johnson; Elon G. Galusha; Charles Hamilton; E.R. Brainerd; Carl Enos Nash; George H. Reed; Elmer Grey; Carroll A. Stilson; Irving S. Metzger; Rufus L. Horton; Melville Dozier; John North; James Stark Bennett; Everett Shepardson; Dr. H.H. Koons; Charles L. Batcheller; Frank Merrill; Dr. R. Hutchinson; Dr. F.C.E. Mattison; Dr. E.M. Harwood; Dr. W.D. Babcock; Thomas E. Gibbon; Paran F. Rice; Hansen; Judge C.D. Wilbur; Dr. Hodgen; Charles Bent; Charles C. Montgomery; Dr. J.W. Trueworthy; Roy Jones; Edward Mayberry; Walter Schmidt; Dr. F.L. Anton; George H. Dunlap; Wesley Beach.

Physical location:

Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Physical facet:

Possible date from ms. note (by dealer?) on verso of upper cover.

Photographs are mounted on rectos only of leaves of black board; three rectangular frames cut out on each page, and backed with white board, to which portraits are affixed; below each portrait is a smaller frame cut out and backed with white on which member names have been written in pencil or ink. There are no photographs in any of the frames on the final nine leaves of the album.

Bound in dark brown pebble-grain leather covers; gold-stamped monogram "UC" of the University Club on upper cover; textured white endpapers.

Manufacturer's label of The Heinn Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on lower cover; inkstamp of stationer/bookdealer [?] "Merick Reynolds Co., 222 So. Broadway, Los Angeles" on front endpaper.

Spec. Coll. copy: laid in: albumen photograph mounted on cardboard of Mrs. Pauline W. [Williamson] Jones, dated 1902, wife of University Club member Roy Jones, whose portrait is included in the album. Laid in photograph suggests that album probably belonged to Roy Jones.

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in UCLA Library Special Collections.

For additional information on the University Club of Los Angeles, see Twenty-fifth anniversary year book (Los Angeles, 1924) and By-laws and house rules with list of members (Los Angeles, 1911) in the UCLA Library; additional material on Roy Jones available in the Jones Family Papers, 1847-1946 (Collection 208) in UCLA Library Special Collections.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

College graduates --Societies, etc. --California --Los Angeles.
collodion prints
Photographic prints.
Photograph albums.
Collodion printing-out paper prints.
Albumen prints.

Location of this collection:

UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US

Contact:

(310) 825-4988

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