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Eaton Hunting Lodge Photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1986-023
Identifier: 1986-023

Content Description

Album of thirty-one (31) large format, professionally made photographs of the old Eaton Hunting Lodge at the west edge of Cold Springs Canyon at Mountain Drive. Address: 800 Cold Spring Road. Property was purchased by E. Crawford May in 1946 and sold to the McClains in 1949. The residence was built around the original hunting lodge. One (1) photograph of Crawford May, father of donor, taken about 1938, at house at Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs. Collection of five (5) snapshots are mostly of boating trips to the Channel Islands and of the Islands. One (1) negative of San Miguel Island is circa 1910.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Albert De L'Arbre

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1910 - 1938

Creator

Extent

36 Photographic Prints

32 Negatives (Photographs)

Inventory

1. Album of thirty-one (31) bound and loose large format photographs of the old Eaton Hunting Lodge 2. One (1) Photograph of Crawford May, father of donor, taken about 1938 at house at Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs 3. Collection of five (5) snapshots, most of boating trips to the Channel Islands and of the Islands 4. One (1) Negative of San Miguel about 1910 5. Thirty-one (31) 4" x 5" copy negs (made later) of old Eaton Hunting Lodge in 1) above.