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Title: [Melicent Humason Lee]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Full-length portrait, seated in front of building. Dated "Jan. 1, 1932."
2013-1728.
Melicent Eno Humason was born in 1890 to William Lawrence Humason, Jr., and Florence Minerva Cole in New Britain, Conn. She married artist Leslie W. Lee in 1918. Settled in San Diego in 1919. Interested in Indian lore and writing, Melicent wrote articles based on her Indian friends and sources. Eventually wrote children's stories. Founded and became director of the Indian Arts League, San Diego. She died in 1943.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on paper mount ; image 2 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. on mount 6 x 4 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001502447CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Lee, Melicent Humason,--Portraits
Authors--California--San Diego
San Diego (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Diego
San Diego (Calif.)

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