Bandini-Winston Family Collection: Finding Aid
mssBanwin
Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
February 2024
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Business Number: (626) 405-2191
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Bandini-Winston family collection
Creator:
Winston, John Bandini, 1863-1940
Identifier/Call Number: mssBanwin
Physical Description:
5.3 Linear Feet
(5 boxes, 2 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1863-1962
Abstract: This collection consists of business
correspondence, ephemera, estate and land papers related to the Bandini, Couts, and Winston
families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Bandini-Winston family collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Paul Hunt Books, July 1980.
Biographical / Historical
John Bandini Winston was born in August 1863. He was the son of Dr. James Brown Winston and
Marguerite Bandini Winston. He married Carolina Maria Couts in 1887. She was the daughter of
Cave Johnson Couts and Maria Ysidora Barbara Bandini. The couple had three children: John
Bandini Winston, Jr., Carolina Winston, and Marguerite Y. Winston. Carolina Winston married
Dr. Sven Richard Lokrantz, a Swedish medical doctor.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of business correspondence, ephemera, estate and land papers
related to the Bandini, Couts, and Winston families. Boxes 1-3 contain correspondence
primarily addressed to John Bandini Winston and his wife, Carolina Maria (Couts) Winston.
John Winston was an agent in the real estate industry and there are letters from attorneys,
banks, dealers, land companies, and occupants. The subject matter in the earlier
correspondence concerns the litigation of the heirs and successors of the late Cave Johnson
Couts for the ownership of the Buena Vista rancho. Box 4 consists of estate papers and
letter books belonging to John Bandini Winston spanning from 1892 through 1922. Box 5
consists of land titles to various lots in Los Angeles County, California. There is also
some ephemera and material related to Sven Lokrantz and his wife, Carolina Winston Lokrantz.
There are two oversize items: an account book for property in Los Angeles and a photograph
of the Tuna Club banquet in 1937.
Processing Information
Processed by Gina C Giang in 2016; in February 2024, Gayle M. Richardson created the
finding aid.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
General
Former call number: mssBandini-Winston collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Businessmen
Land tenure
Ranches
Real property
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Rancho Buena Vista (Calif.)
Rancho Guajome (Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.) -- History
Estate records
Legal documents
Letters (correspondence)
Photographs
Bandini, Refugio (Argüello)
Winston, Carolina M. (Couts), 1868-1944
Box 4
Estate papers, notebook, letter books
Box 5
Land papers and Lokrantz family
Folder Oversize 1
Los Angeles County tracts: account book
1923-1931
Folder Oversize 2
Tuna Club banquet: photograph
1937
