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Katharine Putnam Hooker photograph collection

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A collection of photographs relating to the life of Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her husband, John Daggett Hooker (1838-1911), and their daughter Marian Osgood Hooker (1875-1968), an amateur photographer who made many of the photographs in the collection. The majority of the collection shows Hooker family, friends and associates at the large Hooker family residence and garden, 325 West Adams Street, Los Angeles. Some of the friends include George Ellery Hale, Margaret Collier Graham (copy photograph only), John Muir, and Jules Simoneau. There are group portraits of Marian Hooker with other students of the graduating class of 1894 of the Marlborough School, a private Los Angeles girl's school. The girls are identified as: Mary Hardy, Henriette Vischer, Marian Hooker, Alice Paul and Bessie Ellis. Other posed group photographs show young women in costumes of traditional Japanese and Turkish clothing (ca. 1893-1894) or posed and dressed as "Lphigenie" (1906). There are also family groups dining on the porch; a female group outing to Echo Mountain; Katharine Putnam Hooker working on bookbinding; and views of the house and grounds when it became "Miss (Maude) Thomas' School" (St. Catherine's), (ca. 1910). A portion of the collection features scenic views made by Marian on outings around Southern California: Death Valley; Red Rock Canyon; Balboa; Catalina Island; Bear Valley; El Molino Viejo in San Marino and an adobe out building; street views of West Adams Street in central Los Angeles; and residences and streets in Pasadena. There is one folder of miscellaneous card photographs, mostly unidentified. One view shows a group of African American children sitting on a wood fence in front of a shack. There are also two mounted prints of the house occupied by General George Washington in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Production date
1893-1910
Call number
photCL 349
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. J. Rolland Keyes, 1970.
Dimensions
images 19 x 24 cm and smaller
Associated people
Hooker, Marian O. (1875-1968)
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