Typewritten description of photographs of Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister of Herbert Hoover, and copies of photographs from Hoover family album, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten description of photographs of Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister of Herbert Hoover, and copies of photographs from Hoover family album, 1928

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Text reads: [Stamped] Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. [Handwritten] Hold this copy. [Typewritten] Copies of photographs from the private family album of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, 1337 15th Street, Santa Monica, California, sister of Herbert Hoover and Theodore J. Hoover. These pictures are duplicated through the courtesy of Mrs. Leavitt who has supplied the information covering them on the enclosed caption sheet.1- Mary Minthorn, grandmother of the Hoover children on their mother’s side.2- Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Minthorn Hoover, parents of the Hoover children, photographed at West Branch, Iowa, between 1880 and 1889.3- Childhood home of the Hoover children at West Branch, Iowa, where the parents died. Herbert Hoover’s mother (then age about 35) stands in the front yard of the house. This house WAS NOT the birthplace of the Hoover children, according to Mrs. Leavitt.4- Standing, left, Theodore J. (“Tad”) Hoover, at age 20, and Herbert (“Bert”) C. Hoover, at 16; seated Mary (“MAY”) Hoover, age 14, now Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, Santa Monica, Calif. This group of the Hoover children was made at Salem, Oregon, in 1888. Theodore Hoover is now head of the engineering department at Stanford University; Herbert Hoover is [struck out] Secretary of Commerce [handwritten below] President of the United States.5- When Herbert Hoover was a junior at Stanford University -- left to right, Professor Newsome, then instructor in geology; J.K. Means, mining engineer; Herbert C. Hoover.6- Herbert Hoover and a classmate when both were juniors at Stanford University.7- Herbert Hoover as a freshman at Stanford University, age 17.8- Herbert Hoover at the age of 25, photographed at Perth, West Australia, in 1898, when he was serving as mining engineer for the Bewick Moreing Co. (verify name of mining company) of London.9- Herbert Hoover at the age of 34, after he had left Australia and was stationed at London.10--11--12--13 new studies of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, only sister of Herbert Hoover, made at her home in Santa Monica, California

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1664 - 1665 - 1666 - 1667 - 1668 - 1669 1670 - 1671 - 1672 - 1673 - 1674 - 1675 1676 - 1677 - 1678 - 1679 - 1680 - 1681 Herbert Hoover, Copies boyhood pictures, Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister, Santa Monica, Put names on negs

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Names

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Minthorn, Mary Wesley, 1818-1903
Means, John Harrison, b. ca. 1862
Leavitt, Mary Van Ness, 1876-1953
Hoover, Hulda Minthorn, 1848-1884
Newsom, John F. (John Flesher), 1869-1928
Hoover, Jesse Clark, 1846-1880
Hoover, Theodore J. (Theodore Jesse), 1871-1955

Resource type

still image