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Title
Six people in period costume around tea table in dining room in the Huntington residence
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-02
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Huntington History
Rights Information
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Description
The people, from left to right, are Victor Mature, Connie Compaigne, Sheila Stapler, "Buck" Edgar Buchanan, Hal Landon, and Ann West (Wood). Compaigne and Buchanan are seated at a table in dining room, while a standing Mature speaks to Compaigne, and Stapler carries a silver tray. Landon is standing next to the fireplace speaking to a seated West. George Romney's Catherine (Halead) Burton (1789) hangs over the fireplace. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "Tea party group in Dining Room, Huntington Art Gallery. Original fireplace from old house in Hanover Square, London, 1755. Chairs, Georgian, about 1740. Tea table, about 1760." Buchanan has elsewhere been identified as Frederick Blanchard.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Identifier
photCL 107 vol13 (29c)
19077
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll8/id/423
Subject
Huntington Residence. Dining room
Source
photCL 107 - Henry E. Huntington Estate, San Marino, California
Huntington History, Huntington Digital Library

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