Bond Family Photograph Collection photCL 219
Suzanne Oatey
The Huntington Library
June 2020
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Bond family photograph collection
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 219
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1896-1906
Abstract: Photographs of the Judge Hiram Gilbert
Bond residence "New Park" in Santa Clara, California, and Bond family members including
Marshall Bond at his cabin in Dawson, Yukon, 1898.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Bond family photograph collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Richard H. Warner, August 1977.
Alaska and Yukon prints made from negatives loaned to the donor by Marshall Bond Jr.,
August 1969.
Hiram Gilbert Bond (1838-1906) was a federal judge in Virginia in 1866 under
Reconstruction. He went on to become a self-made millionaire as a broker and businessman in
mining, ranching, railroads and other interests. He married Laura Ann Higgins and they had
two sons, Marshall and Louis. Author Jack London became a friend of the Bond family after he
met Marshall Bond, who was a mining engineer, and his brother Louis while in the Klondike,
1897-1898. London spent time at the Bond estate in Santa Clara, California, and based the
character of Judge Miller in "The Call of the Wild" on Judge Bond. The setting of the
beginning of the novel is based on the Bond residence, and the dog Buck was inspired by the
Bonds' dog, Jack.
This collection contains photographs of Hiram G. Bond, his sons Marshall L. Bond and Louis
W. Bond, and an album of 35 photographs of the Bond family residence "New Park," in Santa
Clara, California, approximately 1896-1906. There are four loose photographs of Louis Bond
in Goldfield, Nevada; Louis and Marshall Bond; and Hiram G. Bond in portraits alone and with
grandchildren, 1906. Images from the Klondike gold rush depict the Bond brothers, their dog
Jack, and three other men outside their cabin in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898. There are no
photographs of Jack London in this collection. There are also copies of a few commercial
photographs of miners in Alaska and the Klondike. The "New Park" album (disbound) contains
mounted 8 x 10-inch views of the exterior and interior of the Bond residence in Santa Clara,
which has a swimming pool, windmill, and vineyard. Hiram Bond appears in one photograph,
with dogs, and another shows two small children, presumably his grandchildren. An
unidentified woman (probably Laura Bond) is partially cut out of two photographs.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, circa late-20th century. In 2020, Suzanne Oatey
created a finding aid derived from a collection file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture, Domestic -- California --
19th century
Gold miners -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley
Mansions -- California
Dawson (Yukon)
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Santa Clara (Calif.)
Photographs
Photograph albums
Bond, Hiram Gilbert, 1838-1906
-- Homes and haunts
Bond, Marshall,
1867-1941
Box 1
Bond family photograph collection