Hulda Minthorn Hoover and Jesse Clark Hoover, parents of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, 1880s, rephotographed Santa Monica, 1928

Title: Hulda Minthorn Hoover and Jesse Clark Hoover, parents of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, 1880s, rephotographed Santa Monica, 1928
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: 1928
1880-1889
Date: 1880/1889
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: Portraits of Hulda Minthorn Hoover, in dress with high collar and roses, and Jesse Clark Hoover, in jacket, copied from Hoover family album
Photograph of 2 prints, both oval-shaped, held with tacks at edges
These photographs appear 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.
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: 1674

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_1950
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bxvzw
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.