Mary Van Ness Leavitt posing in her garden, Santa Monica, 1928
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University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository) Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer) Leavitt, Mary Van Ness, -- 1876-1953 (subject)
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Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister of Herbert Hoover, posing in her garden, seated, in dress with lace collar and cuffs, with magazine in lap Handwritten at edge of negative: 1685 34.025591 Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1687 - 1688 - 1689 - 1690 1691 - 1692 July 12/28, Mary Van Ness Leavitt, Sister of Herbert Hoover, In her garden, Santa Monica Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Leavitt residence was at 1337 15th Street, Santa Monica -118.485085 This photograph, reversed, appears in the newspaper Gobles News, Gobles, Michigan, March 22, 1928, with the caption: Hoover’s sister. Here is Mary Van Ness Leavitt of Santa Monica, Cal., sister of Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. She calls her distinguished brother “Bert.”, and in the Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, March 8, 1928.
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