Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The Ludington estate, also known as Val Verde, Dias Felices, the Henry Dater house, and the Dr. Warren Austin home was designed by the architect Bertram Grovenor Goodhue, constructed in 1918 and then purchased by Charles H. Ludington in 1924. His son, Wright Saltus Ludington (who inherited the estate in 1927 or 1930), engaged the landscape architect Lockwood de Forest to design the gardens in 1925. Retaining the geometry of Goodhue's design and much of the wilderness, Lockwood transformed the gardens over a period of twenty-three years.
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View of the Lansdowne Hermes (a Roman, marble statue from the Hadrianic period, now in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art), against a backdrop of alternating columns and hedges. On top of each column is a sculpted basket of flowers.
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View towards house from the reflection pool with a bronze statue of a bacchante and infant faun by Frederick MacMonnies
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: J. W. Gillespie, Montecito, 8/27/32
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View of a parterre of four geometric pools around a central fountain, facing away from the house towards trees, including palm trees
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Walkway bisecting courtyard enclosed by potted flowers, cypress trees and a semicircular wall incorporating an exedra, and with a drum-shaped fountain (?) with a sculptural relief of dancing maenads in the center
Date:: March 14, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Octagonal fountain with bowl on pedestal in center, beneath pergola with brick pavement with dense foliage including palm tree visible beyond
Date:: August 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Downward view towards walled sundial terrace with central sundial, cruciform walks forming four planting beds, cypress trees, shrubs and bench
Date:: March 14, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: View towards pond framed by clipped hedges and walkway, with statue of draped Aphrodite with dolphin at end of pond
Date:: March 28, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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