About this Collection
Olive May Graves Percival was born July 1, 1869, near Sheffield, Illinois; moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother and sisters, 1887; worked as an insurance clerk in Los Angeles; an avid collector, Percival amassed ten thousand books as well as other collections of hats, dolls, daguerreotypes, silver, textiles, quilts, fans, bookplates, Lalique, and Oriental art; her cottage home was situated along the Arroyo Seco east of Los Angeles; died February 19, 1945.
Collection Overview
Alternative title
Olive Percival Papers
Date Created
[between 1897-1944]
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ark:/21198/zz000932zv
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https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9927227663606533
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The images in this collection were digitized from nitrate negatives of for photographs taken between 1897 and 1944.
Olive May Graves Percival (1869-1945) was an avid collector of books, hats, dolls, daguerreotypes, silver, textiles, quilts, fans, bookplates, Lalique, and Oriental art. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, guest books, typescripts of articles and poems, bookmarks, bookplates, and material relating to Percival's collection of children's books.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Dept. of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
This digital collection is composed of photographs by and of Los Angeles author and bibliophile Olive Percival. The images document Percival's Arroyo Seco home, Down-hyl Claim, her friends, and her travels in California, to her place of birth in Illinois, and trips to New Orleans, New York, Boston, and Cambridge.
Olive May Graves Percival (1869-1945) was an avid collector of books, hats, dolls, daguerreotypes, silver, textiles, quilts, fans, bookplates, Lalique, and Oriental art. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, guest books, typescripts of articles and poems, bookmarks, bookplates, and material relating to Percival's collection of children's books.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Dept. of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
This digital collection is composed of photographs by and of Los Angeles author and bibliophile Olive Percival. The images document Percival's Arroyo Seco home, Down-hyl Claim, her friends, and her travels in California, to her place of birth in Illinois, and trips to New Orleans, New York, Boston, and Cambridge.
Contents note
Box with photographs (box 7) lost November 4, 2007 (according to OPAC). Images cataloged without originals, not able to ascertain dimensions and identification.
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