Dooley (E. T.) Arbor Villa: the Home of Mr. & Mrs. F. M. Smith, 1902

Summary

Title:

Arbor Villa: the Home of Mr. & Mrs. F. M. Smith, Photographed by E. T. Dooley

Creators:

E. T. Dooley

Extent:

47 photoengravings in 1 album; 36 x 50 cm. 47 digital objects

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Arbor Villa: the Home of Mr. & Mrs. F. M. Smith, Photographed by E. T. Dooley, BANC PIC 1950.005--ffALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of an album of 47 photoengravings produced from photographs taken by E. T. Dooley in 1902. It features views of Arbor Villa, the residence of Francis Marion Smith, in Oakland, California. Walter J. Mathews was the architect of the estate. Exterior views include sculptures, fountains, the court, the hot house, the grape arbor, the lily pond, and the deer pen. Interior views include the ballroom, bedroom, dining room, and more.

Biographical / historical:

Francis Marion Smith (1846-1931) was an entrepreneur in California and Nevada who discovered borax and established the Pacific Coast Borax Company. Its trademarked "20 Mule Team," which hauled borax from Death Valley for refining, became a famous advertising symbol. Smith put his profits into the Realty Syndicate for land development, a major street railway company, and the Key Route train and ferry system. He made 25 million dollars in his business ventures, but by 1913, due to short-term debt and over-expansion, lost his fortune. He was able to partly rebuild his fortune by using the money from his Nevada silver mine and putting it into the Searles Lake Borax industry in California.

(Source: Hildebrand, George H. Borax Pioneer: Francis Marion Smith. San Diego, Calif. : Howell-North Books, 1981.)

Acquisition information:

Purchased 1949

Related resources

Alternative form available:

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Padma Rubiales.

Date Prepared:

1997

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid was created using various methods. The container list was automatically generated from the California Heritage Digital Image Access Project control database using perl; the contextual information was partially derived from existing text, with additional information added during the editing process. Date of source: October 1996 . Machine-readable finding aid created by Padma Rubiales

Restrictions:

Collection stored off-site; advance notice required for use.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Arbor Villa: the Home of Mr. & Mrs. F. M. Smith, Photographed by E. T. Dooley, BANC PIC 1950.005--ffALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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