US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The home of Charles F. Lummis is located at 200 E. Ave. 43, Los Angeles. Lummis rests his hands on the chair and the Duke of Alba stands on the other side of the chair looking at it. The Spanish Duke of Alba paid visits to the art gallery of the museum at Exposition Park and the home of historian Charles F. Lummis. Lummis showed the Duke a chair that is said to have been used in religious services by Fray Junipero Serra. Photograph appears with the article, "Duke Guest of Historian," Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1924: A6. Text from newspaper caption: Spaniard Views Lummis Collection Picture shows nobleman (right) examining some of the treasures of early California days owned by Los Angeles resident. (Mr. Lummis at left.) Text from negative sleeve: 15374 - Chas Lummis (portrait + interior shot w/ Duke of Alba) copy 12-11-39 [stamped:] Dec 12 1939 Handwritten on negative: Duke of Alba C F Lummis
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14763 ark:/21198/zz002j8dmd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Chairs Pottery--California--Los Angeles Historians--California--Los Angeles Nobility--Spain Antiques--California--Los Angeles Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 Fitz-James Stuart, Jacobo, 1878-1953. 17th Duke of Alba
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