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Photograph shows a man standing behind a pile of panels. Written in pencil on verso of photograph: "Villa Montalvo roof." Villa Montalvo is a Mediterranean-style villa located at 14800 Montalvo Road in Saratoga. It is now known as the Montalvo Arts Center. Villa Montalvo was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978. "Built in 1912 by Senator James Phelan, California's first elected senator, Montalvo was bequeathed by Phelan to the state of California to serve as a site for the advancement of art, music, literature and architecture." From: "Montalvo Arts Center - Program - Villa & Grounds" http://montalvoarts.org/programs/villa_grounds/ (accessed 5/31/11). Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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