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Photocopy shows a portrait of George Hearst on the left and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst on the right. These portraits were used in an article in the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, March 21, 1976. On recto: "Special for the San Jose Mercury News. SXP031608-3/16/76-Undated: Publisher George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. UPI sm/X (File photos)." On verso: "Hearst, George & wife Phoebe". Stamped in blue in on verso: "Sun Mar 21 1976." Phoebe Apperson Hearst is responsible for finding the land near Pacific Grove that was to become Asilomar. She negotiated with the Pacific Improvement Company to donate the land and contributed camp equipment from her estate. She then hired Julia Morgan as the architect for the project. Julia Morgan also designed the original YWCA building in San Jose in 1915. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.20-21. 1976-03-21 Scanned with Epson Perfection V700 photo; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
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