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ELIZABETH BURTON (Attr.); Album

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ELIZABETH EATON BURTON (American, 1869-1937); Tooled suede album containing over fifty photographs of Gertrude McCall's Santa Clara, CA camping expedition, ca. 1900; Provenance: Estate of Margaret Willcox, great niece of Gertrude and Jane McCall; Unsigned; 5 1/2'' x 7''; Note: The album is inscribed, ''Gertrude McCall camping out expedition on the Island of Santa Clara opposite Santa Barbara;'' ''with Margaret Keating [sister];'' ''Margaret and I went camping; I forget who the others are.'' Gertrude was Jane Byrd McCall Radcliffe-Whitehead's sister. Before they founded Byrdcliffe, Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead built ''Arcady'' in Santa Barbara near the studio of their friends Charles Frederick Eaton and Elizabeth Eaton Burton. The iris and fleur-de-lis were Whitehead symbols that were incorporated into Byrdcliffe Colony logos.

Short tears to corners of photo album. Slight discoloration to photographs.

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