Childhood photograph of Herbert Hoover, with his sister Mary and brother Theodore, West Branch, Iowa, [1881-1884], rephotographed Santa Monica, 1928

Title: Childhood photograph of Herbert Hoover, with his sister Mary and brother Theodore, West Branch, Iowa, [1881-1884], rephotographed Santa Monica, 1928
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: [1881-1884]
1928
Date: 1881/1884
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: Photograph of print, held with tack at right edge
A similar photograph, from about 1888-1890, appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 12, 1928, Glimpses at Secretary Hoover’s Youth Gleaned From Family Album. Out of an old family album in the possession of his sister, Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt … were culled these old photographs giving an intimate glimpse into the early life of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and the outstanding candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. … The Times is indebted to Mrs. Leavitt for the old photographs, reproduced below with a number of the most recent pictures taken of the Secretary.
Herbert Hoover, about age 8, seated on stool, with his sister Mary Hoover (later Mary Van Ness Leavitt) seated on bench, brother Theodore Hoover standing behind them, copied from Hoover family album
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
Handwritten at edge of negative: 1679

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Leavitt, Mary Van Ness, 1876-1953
Hoover, Theodore J. (Theodore Jesse), 1871-1955
Location: California--Santa Monica
Iowa--West Branch
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Youth
People
Government

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_1951
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bxw0w
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.