Elizabeth Kellam De Forest and Lockwood De Forest, Jr. Papers 0000347

Finding aid prepared by Julia Larson
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
4/12/2018


Title: Elizabeth Kellam De Forest and Lockwood De Forest, Jr. papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000347
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 20.0 Linear feet 12 record storage boxes, 1 card box, 1 small flat box, 2 large flat boxes;
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1920-1950
Date (inclusive): circa 1900 - circa 1950
Location note: ADC regular, range 11
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Preferred Citation note

Elizabeth Kellam De Forest and Lockwood De Forest, Jr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Conditions Governing Access note

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Custodial History note

Collection purchased by Library of American Landscape History from Kellam de Forest. Donated to UCSB 4/12/2018.

Conditions Governing Use note

Copyrights owned by Kellam de Forest

Related Archival Materials note

Lockwood de Forest, Jr. landscape drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Biographical/Historical note

Born in San Francisco, Elizabeth Kellam (1898-1984) attended Vassar College and Stanford University, earning her Master’s in Psychology in 1920. In 1925 she married landscape architect Lockwood de Forest III. That same year, Santa Barbara experienced a devastating earthquake. The de Forests joined with prominent artists, architects, planners, and philanthropists to form the Community Arts Association, ultimately rebuilding Santa Barbara in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style. Together, the de Forests founded and subsequently edited The Santa Barbara Gardener from 1925-1942, combining Elizabeth’s plant knowledge and elegant prose with Lockwood’s knowledgeable commentary on design. After returning from World War II, Lockwood de Forest began the landscape design for the entrance to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Following his death in 1949, Elizabeth completed the project as a memorial to her husband. She was licensed as a landscape architect in 1952. Two major commissions were residences for Wright Ludington in Montecito. She consulted with Thomas Church for his Montectio projects, and also served as supervising landscape architect for a new city park in Santa Barbara, the Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden. --From the Cultural Landscape Foundation website

Scope and Contents note

The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, and project files for Elizabeth Kellam de Forest, along with materials related to Lockwood de Forest III, her husband. Lockwood de Forest III family photos, personal and landscape photos and slides; many images document trips around California. Correspondance with Elizabeth de Forest, 1922-1924, sketch book, scrapbook, photo album relating to Wright Ludington. Personal papers of Elizabeth de Forest and art work and other papers relating to the publication, The Santa Barbara Gardener.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Kellam

 

Personal Papers 1884-1984

Physical Description: 3.0 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This series contains personal photographs and correspondence between and by Lockwood de Forest and Elizabeth de Forest. The photographs consist of family photos of vacations and scenery, some professional portraits, but the majority of the photographs were taken with a personal camera. The correspondence includes the letters of Lockwood and Elizabeth prior to their marriage, family correspondence, and Christmas cards. Some of the series has not been fully processed and can include miscellaneous letters or materials that are not completely identified.
 

Personal Letters- Elizabeth de Forest and Lockwood de Forest 1920-1925

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Separated Materials note

See also Box 20 for letters (unprocessed)

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains minimally processed letters from Lockwood de Forest to his fiance Elizabeth de Forest, as well as some of her letters to him. The sub-series also contains correspondence about the wedding of Lockwood and Eilzabeth in 1924.
Box 1, Folder 1

Letters from LdF 1920

Box 1, Folder 2

Letters from LdF 1921

Box 1, Folder 3

Letters from LdF January 1922 - July 1922

Box 1, Folder 4

Letters from LdF July 1922 - December 1922

Box 1, Folder 5

Letters from LdF January 1923 - April 1923

Box 1, Folder 6

Letters from LdF May 1923 - October 1923

Box 1, Folder 7

Letters from LdF October 1923 - December 1923

Box 1, Folder 8

Letters from LdF 1924

Box 1, Folder 9

Letters from LdF October 1924 - November 1924

Box 1, Folder 10-11

Letters from LdF November 1924

Box 1, Folder 12

Letters from LdF November 1924 - December 1924

Box 1, Folder 13-15

Letters from LdF December 1924

Box 1, Folder 16

Letters, postcards, poems from LdF circa 1921

Box 1, Folder 17

Telegrams from LdF 1922-1924

Box 13, Folder 28

Wedding telegrams 1925

Box 18, Folder 1

Letters to LdF February - March 1924

Box 18, Folder 2

Letters to LdF April - May 1924

Box 18, Folder 3

Letters to LdF 1924

 

Personal- Camping/vacation photographs Bulk, 1927-1947 1916-1960

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains photographs, negatives, and slides of camping trips, horse-packing, and car/road trips throughout California, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada. Many of the photographs contain unidentified people and places; additionally, some of the photographs or slides may not contain images from the same trip. The majority of people in the images are not identified.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
De Forest, Kellam
Box 3, Folder 1

Ant Flats Trail / Rae Lakes undated

Box 3, Folder 2-3

Beach trips 1936-1937

Box 3, Folder 4-6

Cabin- unidentified location undated

Box 3, Folder 7

Canon de Chelley and Mesa 1929

Box 3, Folder 8

Crater Lake undated

Box 3, Folder 9

Desert- Arizona? circa 1930s

Box 3, Folder 10

Devil's Postpile / Eastern Sierras 1941

Box 3, Folder 11

East Lake / Mt. Brewer undated

Box 3, Folder 12

Eastern Sierras 1947

Box 3, Folder 13

ET trip? undated

Box 3, Folder 14

Ghost Town undated

Box 3, Folder 15

Grand Canyon 1937

Box 3, Folder 16

Hoover Dam / Boulder Dam circa 1931

Box 3, Folder 17

Joshua Tree National Park? 1933

Box 3, Folder 18

Map of Sierra camping trip undated

Box 3, Folder 19-20

McClure Meadow / Mt. Goddard 1946-1947

Box 3, Folder 21

New Mexico 1946

Box 3, Folder 22

Piute Pass 1947

Box 3, Folder 23

Rainbow Bridge undated

Box 3, Folder 24

Utah? undated

Box 3, Folder 25

Utah and Nevada 1928

Box 3, Folder 26-33, Box 6-7

Unidentified / miscellaneous photographs and negatives circa 1927 - circa 1941

Scope and Contents note

Box 7 contains unidentified slides and rolls of negatives (some identified on metal storage containers); many appear to be scenery or camping trips in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Box 13, Folder 13

Baja California 1924

Box 13, Folder 14

European trip 1934

Box 13, Folder 15

Ribe, Denmark booklet 1934

Box 13, Folder 16

Museum at Ghost Ranch brochure circa 1960?

Box 13, Folder 17

Trip notes and sketches 1923

Box 13, Folder 18-20

Sierra trip circa 1930s

Box 13, Folder 21

Southwest US trip 1938

Box 13, Folder 22

Travel mileage notebook 1916

Box 13, Folder 23

Victoria Island trip circa 1930s

 

Personal- Scenery photographs and negatives 1934-1960

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series has been minimally processed; the majority of negatives and glass slides are still in their original cases. Boxes 5, 6, and 7 all contain slides, glass slides, and rolls of negatives corresponding to scenery photographs.
Box 4, Folder 1

Aloe plant images undated

Box 4, Folder 2-3

England 1934

Box 4, Folder 4

Football game- Kellam? undated

Box 4, Folder 5-6

Hendry's Beach (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 4, Folder 7

Home in the country 1960

Box 4, Folder 8

Italy undated

Box 4, Folder 9

Landscapes / Trees miscellaneous images undated

Box 4, Folder 10

Mexico undated

Box 4, Folder 11

Mountain scenery undated

Box 4, Folder 12-13

Nature scenery undated

Box 4, Folder 14

Sea scenery undated

Box 4, Folder 15-16, Box 5

Sierra Mountains- Calif. circa 1937

Box 4, Folder 17

Spain undated

Box 4, Folder 18

Sweden undated

Box 4, Folder 19-24

Unidentified / Miscellaneous scenery circa 1938-1946

Box 4, Folder 25

Glass Slides- nature scenery undated

Conditions Governing Access note

Very fragile glass slides; researcher access not permitted
Box 4, Folder 26

Glass Slides- flowers and plants undated

Conditions Governing Access note

Very fragile glass slides; researcher access not permitted
 

Personal- EdF and LdF family photographs 1898-1970

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
creator: De Forest, Kellam
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains minimally processed photographs of family groups, the majority of which are the de Forest and Kellam families; many of the photographs do not identify the people in the images.
Box 2, Folder 1-10

Miscellaneous family photographs circa 1898-1942

Box 2, Folder 11

Grandmother with grandchildren 1938

Box 2, Folder 12

Family on La Cumbre Peak undated

Box 2, Folder 13

Family boat on lake undated

Box 2, Folder 14

Slides of California and family 1958-1970

Box 2, Folder 15

Slides of family gatherings undated

Box 2, Folder 16

Slides of rodeo undated

Box 2, Folder 17

Unidentified slides of children / possibly Roosevelt school? undated

 

Kellam de Forest photographs 1926-1958

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains photographs and ephemera on Kellam de Forest, one of the sons of Lockwood and Elizabeth de Forest. Some of the images might contain photographs of other children.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Kellam
Box 2, Folder 18-21

Kellam baby photographs 1926

Box 2, Folder 22-23

Kellam as small child 1928-1929

Box 2, Folder 24

Kellam on playground 1939

Box 2, Folder 25

At Todos Santos circa 1928

Box 2, Folder 26

On camping trip 1938

Box 2, Folder 27

Slides of car undated

Box 2, Folder 28

At Navy base circa 1958

Box 16, Folder 4

Yale Scholarship 1947

 

LdF personal photographs 1898-1947

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains photographs and ephemera of Lockwood de Forest, including his service in both World War One and World War Two, school materials, and other personal photographs. Some of the materials are only minimally processed, awaiting further identifcation.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
Box 2, Folder 29, Box 13, Folder 5

Portraits and World War II photographs circa 1935 - 1945

Box 2, Folder 30-31

Images of cars and motorcycles circa 1936

Box 2, Folder 32, Box 13, Folder 2-4

Childhood photographs 1898-circa 1918

Box 2, Folder 33

European photographs and postcards undated

Box 2, Folder 34

Excursion and scenery photographs circa 1930s

Box 2, Folder 35

Thatcher School undated

Box 2, Folder 36

Unidentified personal negatives undated

Box 2, Folder 37

World War One undated; printed in 1936

Box 2, Folder 38, Box 13, Folder 49, Box 13, Folder 1

Todos Santos personal images 1927-1941, 2001

Box 2, Folder 39

Diary of trip to Europe 1921

Box 8, Folder 19

Images of paintings and sketches 1937

Box 8, Folder 20

Landscapes and postcards undated

Box 8, Folder 21

"Miscellaneous to sort" circa 1936

Box 8, Folder 22

Miscellaneous photographs circa 1931-1946

Box 8, Folder 23-24

Negatives- unidentified construction site 1928

Box 8, Folder 25

Personal photographs circa 1910s - 1946

Box 8, Folder 26

Personal sketches 1899-1902

Box 8, Folder 27

Personal work project- photographs and slides of model circa 1947

Box 8, Folder 28

Postcards with photographs by Lockwood de Forest undated

Box 8, Folder 29

Spring flower show 1928

Box 8, Folder 30

Val Verde photographs? and unidentified project list undated

 

LdF personal correspondence 1884-1949

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence between Lockwood de Forest, his mother Meta de Forest, his father Lockwood de Forest Sr., his siblings Alfred and Judith de Forest, and other family members and friends. The sub-series also contains un-sent Christmas cards, some dated and some undated. Some materials in this sub-series are only minimally processed.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
De Forest, Kellam
Box 13, Folder 6

Army group portrait circa 1918

Box 13, Folder 7-8, Box 18, Folder 6

Army papers and letters 1917-1919, 1941-1944

Box 13, Folder 9

Army enlistment record and discharge papers 1918

Box 18, Folder 7

de Forest, Alfred 1923, 1930, 1939

Box 18, Folder 8

de Forest, Judith letters to family 1884-1938

Box 18, Folder 9-13

de Forest, Judith 1920-1940

Box 1, Folder 18

de Forest, Kellam letters to 1937-1948

Box 18, Folder 14

de Forest, Lockwood Sr. letters to LdF 1921-1922

Box 18, Folder 15

de Forest, Lockwood Sr. and Meta de Forest letters from "Gold Wedding" 1930

Box 18, Folder 16-21

de Forest, Metta letters to/from 1921-1930

Box 13, Folder 25

de Forest family history circa 1984

Box 13, Folder 10

Driver's License- London 1934-1935

Box 13, Folder 11

Estate Appraisal 1949

creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984
Box 1, Folder 32

Sioux City Sunday Journal newspaper September 1945

Box 8, Folder 1

Christmas card- Ancient buildings undated

Box 8, Folder 2

Christmas card- Andalusia Fountain undated

Box 8, Folder 3

Christmas card- car with tree undated

Box 8, Folder 4

Christmas card- Chreche undated

Box 8, Folder 5

Christmas card- England and Sweden undated

Box 8, Folder 6

Christmas card- Family dog undated

Box 8, Folder 7

Christmas cards- miscellaneous undated

Box 8, Folder 8

Christmas card- Moorish fountain undated

Box 8, Folder 9

Christmas card- Old World Garden undated

Box 8, Folder 10

Christmas card- statue undated

Box 8, Folder 11

Christmas card- tree planting by family undated

Box 8, Folder 12

Christmas card 1930

Box 8, Folder 13

Christmas card 1932

Box 8, Folder 14

Christmas card 1933

Box 8, Folder 15

Christmas card 1937

Box 8, Folder 15B

Christmas Card 1938

Box 8, Folder 16

Christmas card 1939

Box 8, Folder 17

Christmas card 1940

Box 8, Folder 18

Christmas card 1941

Box 18, Folder 22

Ludington, Wright 1927

Box 18, Folder 5

Miscellaneous Correspondence 1921-1924

Box 13, Folder 26

Telephone list and address book undated

Box 13, Folder 12

Thather School grades 1915

Box 18, Folder 23

Unidentified Correspondence 1922-1949

Box 18, Folder 24

Unidentified Envelopes circa 1919-1924

Box 8

World War Two patches and buttons circa 1945

Box 9, Folder 48

Water essay undated

Scope and Contents note

Dis-bound notebook with handwritten essay on importance of water in gardens. Also includes drawings on cardboard.
Box 13, Folder 27

Watercolor of a flower undated

 

EdF personal letters, etc. 1915-1984

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984

Separated Materials note

See also Box 26 (unprocessed)

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains materials from Elizabeth de Forest's schooling at both Vassar and Stanford, her work with the Women's Auxillary in World War Two, and miscellaneous household correspondence, including after the death of Lockwood de Forest in 1949. The sub-series also includes small booklets and brochures.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949
Box 14, Folder 2

American Women's Voluntary Services snack bar sign 1943

Box 16, Folder 1

Austrailia photographs 1979-1980

Box 16, Folder 6

Biography and obituaries 1960, 1984

Box 14, Folder 3

Book of collected poetry - scrapbook 1915-1918, 1965-1967

Scope and Contents note

Contains typed and handwritten poems, all dated 1915-1918. Also contains two color photographs of houses, dated 1965 and 1967.
Box 16, Folder 2

Camping Lists and notebooks 1947

Box 16, Folder 3

Camping Trip list Gardner Basin 1960

Box 14, Folder 4

"Collected Recipies of Elizabeth de Forest" 1995, 2018

Box 15, Folder 1

College notebooks circa 1918

Scope and Contents note

One small notebook with date 1938 on one page, one larger notebook, 1918, for Socialism: Outline for Reading and Study
Box 13, Folder 59

De Forest, Elizabeth obituary 1984

Box 16, Folder 7

Estate Division 1984

Box 16, Folder 8

Estate documentation 1949

Box 18, Folder 4

Family Correspondence 1939-1940

Box 16, Folder 9

Finance and Stock Records 1946-1950

Box 16, Folder 10

Household expenses 1925-1928, 1931-1937

Box 16, Folder 11

Larkin estate correspondence and will 1961-1963

Scope and Contents note

Elizabeth de Forest was named as a beneficiary in the will of Alice Larkin Toulmin
Box 19, Folder 14

Letters from Lockwood de Forest IV 1956-1957

Box 16, Folder 12

Marraige Service booklet 1925

Box 15, Folder 2

Master's Thesis: Result of Intelligence Testing in the First Three Grades of the Palo Alto Schools 1921

Box 16, Folder 13

Medical Bills- Kellam 1947-1948

Box 16, Folder 14

Memorial Service 1984

Box 19, Folder 16-17

Miscellaneous Correspondence 1929-1983

Box 16, Folder 15

Passports 1963, 1978

Box 15, Folder 4

Stanford Graduate Thesis research circa 1920

Box 16, Folder 16

State Board of Landscape Architects License 1954-1958

Box 15, Folder 3

"The Shop: A Comedy in One Act" 1919

Scope and Contents note

Play written by Elizabeth Kellam and produced by the Vassar Dramatic Workshop
Box 16, Folder 17

Todos Santos house repairs and invoices 1960-1962, 1985

Box 15, Folder 5

Vassar college scrapbook 1915-1919

Box 14, Folder 5

Vassar and Yale- correspondence and alumni brochures 1967

Box 19, Folder 15

World War II correspondence 1938-1947

Box 15, Folder 6

Writing/poetry 1932, 1941, 1947

 

Booklets and brochures

Box 14, Folder 6

"The Bulfinch Drawings in the American Antiquarian Society" by harold Kirker 1976

Box 14, Folder 7

"Home Fruit Growing in California" by W.L. Howard 1947

Box 14, Folder 8

Mission La Concepcion Purisima by Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt 1932

Box 14, Folder 9

Reef Point Gardens bulletin 1950

Box 14, Folder 10

"Those Early Years" by Edwin Stadtmuller 1955

Box 14, Folder 11

"What is the Spiritual Resort of a Chinese?" by Sophia Chen 1947

Box 14, Folder 12

The Williamsburg Restoration 1933

Box 14, Folder 13

Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defense booklets 1959

 

Professional projects and Correspondence - Lockwood de Forest 1899-1999

Physical Description: 1.0 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This series contains three sub-series for project files, correspondence, and photographs for landscape architecture projects by Lockwood de Forest.
 

LdF projects and writings 1899-1987

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series includes project materials and articles about various Lockwood de Forest projects. Some materials in this sub-series are not fully processed.
Box 14, Folder 1

De Forest, Lockwood office stationary undated

Box 8, Folder 31

Forknir, J.C. Fig Gardens (Reno County, Calif.) undated

Box 13, Folder 41

Griffith, Elanor Tilt beach house (Sandyland Cove, Calif.) circa 1945

creator: Aplin, William
Box 13, Folder 42

Griffith, Richard house Happy Valley (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) circa 1930s

creator: Aplin, William
Box 13, Folder 43

Jamison garden Park Ln. (Montecito, Calif.) undated

Box 13, Folder 44

Ludington Court / Santa Barbara News Press article 1940

Box 13, Folder 40

Parshall, DeWitt garden (Pasadena, Calif.) undated

creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949
Box 8, Folder 32

Meeker, Arthur Old Colonial Houses of the Cape of Good Hope 1899

Scope and Contents note

Reference material used for Meeker project
Box 13, Folder 47

Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibiton gallery undated

Box 13, Folder 45

St. Vincent's orphanage (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 8, Folder 33

Todos Santos Lane- article in Los Angeles Times Magazine 1996

Box 13, Folder 46

Todos Santos scrapbook undated

Box 13, Folder 48

Todos Santos new room plans undated

Box 13, Folder 50

Todos Santos viewshed fight 1987

Box 13, Folder 54

Watson, Dr. E. house / Sunset Magazine 1952

Box 13, Folder 29

Contemporary Landscape Architecture article 1937

Box 13, Folder 30

Unidentified drawings for a client undated

Box 13, Folder 31

"Fabricated House" writings undated

Box 13, Folder 32

Lists of plants circa 1916

Box 13, Folder 33

"Plants that impressed us the most" undated

Box 13, Folder 34

Miscellaneous notes and writings 1923-1926

Box 13, Folder 37

Poetry pamphlets 1920, 1926

Box 13, Folder 38

Santa Barbara County Spring Flower Show 1930

Box 13, Folder 39

Santa Barbara News Press article 1967

Box 13, Folder 58

Santa Barbara Beautiful awards 1974-1975

 

LdF Correspondence 1925-1999

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence specifically about certain landscape or architecture projects, including more recent correspondence about the historical impact of de Forest landscape projects. Some miscellaneous letters have not been fully processed.
Box 13, Folder 35

Cooke, Forest H. obituary 1958

Box 1, Folder 31

DeForest, Kellam / HGTV 1999

Box 1, Folder 21

First Church of Christ, Scientist 1999

Box 13, Folder 24, Box 1, Folder 19, 22

Miscellaneous letters 1925-1935, 1945, 1949-1959

Box 1, Folder 30

National Life Insurance 1942-1949

Box 13, Folder 36

Paine, Charles 1930

Box 1, Folder 29

Sanderson, Lemuel 1937-1942

Box 1, Folder 23

Sheridan, Ellen / Sunset Magazine 1947-1948

Box 1, Folder 27

Sunset Magazine 1938-1951

Box 9, Folder 47

Thatcher School (Ojai, Calif.) 1946-1953

Box 1, Folder 20

Union Oil Company 1947

Box 1, Folder 26

Watson, Dr. E.C. 1947-1951

Box 1, Folder 28

Williams, Col. L.K. 1946-1949

 

LdF project photographs 1921-1998

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Lockwood III, 1896-1949

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains photographs of landscape architecture projects by Lockwood de Forest, mainly in the Santa Barbara, California area. Some of the photographs were taken by professional photographers. There are also a number of unidentified photographs.
Box 9, Folder 1

Client names from original folders undated

Box 9, Folder 2

Barker ranch house undated

Box 9, Folder 3

Bothin tea garden "Mar y Cel" circa 1920s

Box 9, Folder 4

Buffum Overlook Ln. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

creator: Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930
Box 9, Folder 5

Cana slides 1998

General Physical Description note: slides from 1998
Box 9, Folder 6

Chandler, Philip undated

Box 9, Folder 7

Cooke house (San Diego, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 8

Coral Casino (Montecito, Calif.) undated

creator: Dailey, Gardner
Box 9, Folder 9

Cramer, Nevil (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

creator: Anson, Jerry
Box 9, Folder 10

Cudahy, Mary & Clara Hot Springs Rd. (Montecito, Calif.) undated

Box 10, Folder 1, Box 9, Folder 11-12

de Forest, Lockwood house Todos Santos Ln. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) circa 1935-1938

creator: Aplin, William
Box 9, Folder 13

Dial house? undated

Box 9, Folder 14

Dickenson house Banksias plantings circa 1940s

Box 9, Folder 15

Dunn house? undated

Box 9, Folder 16

East Beach Cabrillo Blvd. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1928, 1936

Box 9, Folder 17

Fossen, Van undated

Box 9, Folder 18

Frothingham, Brook house (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

creator: Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930
Box 9, Folder 19

Gavit garden (Montecito, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 20

Gillespie house? undated

Box 9, Folder 21

Green, John / Ludington pool house garden undated

creator: Aplin, William
Box 9, Folder 22

Griffith, Richard (Hidden Valley, Calif.) undated

creator: Aplin, William
Box 9, Folder 23

Hogbirl, Mrs. house? slides undated

Box 11

Italy scrapbook with Wright Ludington 1921

Scope and Contents note

Leather-bound book containing photographs, handwritten captions, and watercolors of Lockwood de Forest and Wright Ludington's trip to Europe in 1921.
Box 9, Folder 24

Jameson garden (Montecito, Calif.) undated

Box 10, Folder 2

Kellam house (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 13, Folder 51-53, Box 9, Folder 25-29

Ludington, Wright / Val Verde (Montecito, Calif.) circa 1938, 1997

creator: Aplin, William
creator: De Forest, Kellam
Box 9, Folder 30

Macy, Lydia Bordero undated

Box 9, Folder 31-33

Meeker, Arthur gardens (Montecito, Calif.) 1932

creator: Ballard, Schreve
creator: Cramer, Ambrose C., 1891-1970
Box 9, Folder 34

Morrison Observatory? 1936

Box 9, Folder 35

Mt. Carmel church undated

Box 9, Folder 36

Nelson, William gardens Hot Springs Road (Montecito, Calif.) 1938

creator: Ballard, Schreve
Box 10, Folder 3

Ordway house? undated

creator: Aplin, William
Box 10, Folder 4, Box 9, Folder 37

San Diego General Hospital (San Diego, Calif.) 1944

Box 9, Folder 38

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Pritchett Trail (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1941

Box 9, Folder 39

Seavey, Mrs. garden (Montecito, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 40

Sedgewick Ranch undated

Box 9, Folder 41

Smith, Boardman Mission Canyon Rd. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 42

Taylor, Reese Sandy Land Cove (Carpenteria, Calif.) undated

creator: Brost, Robert V.
Box 10, Folder 5

Tile samples undated

Box 10, Folder 6

Unidentified house- patio with de Forest? undated

Box 10, Folder 7

Unidentified house with pond in garden undated

Box 10, Folder 8

Unidentified model of house / Griffith house? undated

Box 10, Folder 9

Unidentified sllides circa 1958-1961

Box 13, Folder 55-57, Box 10, Folder 10-11

Unidentified houses and gardens undated

creator: Aplin, William
Box 9, Folder 43

University Club (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 44

Upton, Mrs. Garden St. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) undated

Box 9, Folder 45

Wilbur, Brayton garden (Hillsborough, Calif.) 1938

creator: Lloyd, Francis
Box 9, Folder 46

Willliams, Miss undated

 

Projects and Correspondence - Elizabeth de Forest 1918-1984

Physical Description: 5.0 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984

Scope and Contents note

This series contains professional correspondence, project files, and other materials related to the landscape architecture practice of Elizabeth de Forest. Four linear feet of materials about her work at Mount Vernon are unprocessed.
Box 16, Folder 5, Box 12

EdF address book 1918-1947

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984

Scope and Contents note

Small box containing alphabetical address cards, notes, and miscellaneous letters.
 

EdF office projects 1926-1983

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains office files, project files, and some correspondence about specific projects between Elizabeth de Foreset and her clients.
Box 17, Folder 1

California Unemployment Insurance 1945-1950

Box 17, Folder 2

Address list of clients undated

Box 17, Folder 3

Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden 1980-1981

Box 14, Folder 14

"Books of Special Use to Santa Barbara Gardeners" by Elizabeth and Lockwood de Forest 1930

Box 17, Folder 4

Church, Bruce 8 Los Laurellos Ave. (Salinas, Calif.) 1949-1950

Box 17, Folder 5

Canby, James Sycamore Canyon (Montecito, Calif.) 1963

Box 17, Folder 6

Ehrlich, Grant 767 Coast Hwy. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1947

Box 17, Folder 7

Eichler, Rudolph Sandyland Cove (Carpenteria, Calif.) 1949

Box 14, Folder 15

Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation donation 1965-1973

Box 14, Folder 16

Garden Club of America Montecito tour map 1926

Box 14, Folder 17

Garden Club of America lecture undated

Box 17, Folder 8

Graham, John 2069 Eucalyptus Hill (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1948

Box 17, Folder 9

Green, John H. 2561 Sycamore Canyon Rd. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1948-1950

Box 17, Folder 10

Hart, James / Bancroft Library 1970-1975

Box 14, Folder 18

La Purisma Mission State Historic Park 1975-1976

Box 17, Folder 11-12

Ludington, Wright Val Verde Sycamore Canyon Rd. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1947-1964

creator: Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984
Box 17, Folder 34

Magee, Woodrow (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1955

Box 17, Folder 13

McClure, Donald 661 Picacho Ln. (Montecito, Calif.) 1962-1963

Box 17, Folder 14

McLean, Robart 1895 E. Valley Rd. (Montecito, Calif.) 1965

Box 17, Folder 15

Minot, Joseph 210 E. Valley Rd. (Montecito, Calif.) 1947-1950

Box 17, Folder 32

Mitchell, William Mountain Dr. (Montecito, Calif.) 1974-1978

Box 14, Folder 19, Box 15, Folder 7

Mount Vernon Ladies Association 1972-1973

Box 17, Folder 16

Orr, Margaret and Frank 2635 Poli St. (Ventura, Calif.) undated

Box 17, Folder 17

Page, James Lilac Ln. (Montecito, Calif.) 1958-1960

Box 14, Folder 20

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society award 1978

Box 17, Folder 18

Pritchett Trail / Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1950

Box 14, Folder 21

Rocky Nook Park / County of Santa Barbara 1974-1975

Box 17, Folder 19

Rowntree, Lester (Carmel, Calif.) 1950

Box 17, Folder 20

Raymond, Robert (Santa Paula, Calif.) 1949-1950

Box 1, Folder 24

San Diego, City of 1950

Box 17, Folder 21-22

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1955, 1979-1980

Box 14, Folder 22

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden information circa 1983

Box 17, Folder 23

Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens 1946-1949

Box 14, Folder 23-24

Santa Barbara Foundation 1956-1972

Box 14, Folder 25

Santa Barbara Gardener 1939

Box 1, Folder 25

Santa Barbara Museum of Art memorial 1947-1949, 1976

Box 17, Folder 24

Saunderson, Alexander 1360 E. Mountain Dr. (Montecito, Calif.) 1971-1973

Box 17, Folder 25-26

Schaffner, Joseph 2206 Mission Ridge Rd. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1955-1973

Box 17, Folder 27

Scheepers, John / Flower Bulb Specialists 1966-1969

Box 17, Folder 28

St. Sebastian Church (Santa Paula, Calif.) 1956

Box 14, Folder 26

Sunset Magazine "The Mexican Christmas Tree" 1936

Box 17, Folder 29

Talcott, James (Rye, NY) 1962

Box 17, Folder 30

Todos Santos Lane alterations and repairs (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1956-1967

Box 14, Folder 27

University of California, Santa Barbara / Santa Barbara Retional Oral History Committee 1982-1983

Box 14, Folder 28

Watson, Ernest home article circa 1952

Box 17, Folder 31

Williams, L. Kemper 100 Tollis Ave. (Montecito, Calif.) 1945-1968

Box 17, Folder 33

Wilson, Roy C. 1953-1954

creator: Wilson, Roy C., 1918-2007
 

EdF Correspondence 1933-1984

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
creator: De Forest, Elizabeth Kellam, 1898-1984

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence between Elizabeth de Forest and her clients about various projects. Many of the materials have not been fully processed.
Box 19, Folder 1

Bacon, Leonard poem undated

Box 19, Folder 2

Christmas cards received 1939-1969

Box 19, Folder 3

De Young Museum / Deborah Fenton 1981

Box 19, Folder 4

Hanley, Jim & Carol / "In the Search for Paradise" film 1980

Box 19, Folder 5

Lawrence, Elizabeth 1961-1965

Box 19, Folder 6

Ludington, Wright poem in memory of Constance Ludington 1963

Box 19, Folder 7

McPherson, Elaine undated

Box 19, Folder 8

Mead-Featherstonhaugh, Honorable Lady 1972

Box 19, Folder 9

Miscellaneous correspondence 1965-1984

Box 19, Folder 10

Mount Vernon publication-related correspondence 1982-1983

Box 19, Folder 11

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden memorial / Kellam de Forest 1987

Box 19, Folder 12

Senni, Contessa Mary circa 1933

Box 19, Folder 13

University of California, Berkeley / James Ackerman 1954

Box 21, Box 23-25

EdF Mount Vernon

Physical Description: 4.0 Linear feet