Item 1: Catalogue House, Blaksley Botanic Gardens, Santa Barbara, California. Stereopticon.
Item 2: Jury. Cabinet card. “The Jury: Commonwealth vs. William Burns & Addison F. Burns, convicted Dec. 1881, Clarion, Pa.” Photograph by F.M. Lewis, Clarion, Pa.
Item 3: Percival Jefferson [?]. “Once upon a time.”
Item 4: Child on a beach. Inscribed on back: 1907.
Item 5: Two children on a beach. 1907 [?]
Item 6: Herman G. Dennison. Cabinet Card. Photograph by Baker’s Art Parlors, Columbus, Ohio, Nos. 228 & 232 High Street.
Item 7: H. Moritz-Royat [?]. Cabinet card. Inscribed on back: 1890/1902. H.T. Wells [?], H. Moritz-Royat [?] Photograph by Atelier Kameke, La Haye, Javastraat 20, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Item 8: Man. Photograph by Heib, N.Y.
Item 9: Man in profile.
Item 10: Alex Thayer [?]. "In [?] remembrance, Alex Thayer, Oct. 1908.”
Item 11: Man in a suit with his hand on his chin.
Item 12: Max Heinrich (1853–1916). Cabinet card. “Since Birthdays come but once a year, I desire to impress the same sentiment in spirit – as it was said in your book – in ink and trust you will always remember your friend, Max Heinrich, Winter Harbor, Aug.17.93.” Photograph by G.H. Van Norman, 310 Main St., Springfield, Mass.
Item 13: Man seated in uniform.
Item 14: Man wearing a hat and gloves. Photograph by Goodwin, 1924.
Item 15: Man in uniform. “His Excellency Ambassador Robert Woods Bliss, with friendly greetings, Henry [illegible text], april 1927.”
Item 16: Man in a suit and tie.
Item 17: Woman with a tiara. Photograph by Keturah Collings, London.
Item 18: Mrs. Benjamin Kissam. Cabinet card. Inscription on verso: "Mrs Kissam, Sargent's 'Lady in Lavender.'" Photograph by Mora, 707 Broadway, New York.
Item 19: Clara Bell Tracy. Cabinet card. Inscribed on back: “Mrs. Tracy, 'Clara Bell' of St. Louis.” Photograph by Scholten, Nos. 920 & 922 Olive Street, Cor. 10th Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Item 20: Woman holding a baby.
Item 21: Woman holding a bouquet of flowers.
Item 22: Marie Oge Beale (1880–1956) on a horse. “Washington DC, May 1927.” Photograph by Buckingham Photographers of Fine Arts, 810 13th Street, Washington, D.C.
Item 23: Woman wearing pearl necklaces.
Item 24: Woman wearing a tiara.
Item 25: Woman with two children.
Item 26: Mrs. Willie Allen. Cabinet card. Photograph by Schloss, 54 West 23rd Street, New York.
Item 27: Anne Chilton. “Xmas 1937.”
Item 28: Mary Chilton.
Item 29: Rosa di Camastra.
Item 30: Susan M. Corliss (1858–1908). “With All Love 1858–1908. Yours, Susan M. Corliss," and "for Mildred.”
Item 31: Mrs. Dow. Cabinet card. Photograph by L. Alman & Co., 172 5th Avenue, N.Y. and Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R.I.
Item 32: Anne Stowe Fithian (1874–1949). Anne Fithian was a landscape architect in California and an honorary trustee of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Item 33: Brigadier General James William Forsyth (1835–1906). Cabinet card. Photograph by Taber, 121 Post Street, San Francisco, California. General Forsyth was was a U.S. Army officer and general. He had been a Union staff officer during the American Civil War.
Item 34: Russell Greeley (1878–1956). Photograph by Bachrach. Signed and dated by photographer, 1919. Greeley was a portrait painter who had been a director of Mildred Barnes Bliss’s American Distributing Service (Service de Distribution Américaine) during the First World War.
Item 35: The Harrison family. “Believe it or not, these are the Harrisons. Merry Xmas and a Better New Year!”
Item 36: The Harrison family. “Merry Christmas from the Harrisons.”
Item 37: Florence Haywood. Cabinet card. “In remembrance, Florence.” Photograph by J.C. Strauss Studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1898.
Item 38: Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849–1931). “With E.G. Kennedy’s kind regards.” Photograph by Frederick Hollyer, Pembroke Square, Kensington W., London. Edward G. Kennedy was a leading New York print dealer who represented the New York and Paris firm H. Wunderlich & Co. in their dealings with the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Item 39: John (1866–1955) and Lydia Loudon. Inscribed on back: 1946. John Loudon was a Dutch diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the First World War. From 1901 to 1913, he was a diplomat in Peking, London, Paris, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
Item 40: Alexander R. Magruder. “To Robert Woods Bliss with affectionate regards. March 15, 1927.” Press photograph by A. Frankl, Berlin W. 50, Augsburgerstrasse 45.
Item 41: Marie Masters Bonney Campion (1879–1967).
Item 42: Elliott Bates McKee (1904–1990). Dated 1922. Photograph by John Howard Paine, Washington, D.C. Bates McKee was the stepson of Frederick H. Brooke, an architect who worked at Dumbarton Oaks (1921–1923).
Item 43: McKee Dunn Mckee (1873–1910) and his daughter, Frances Dunn McKee.
Item 44: Frances Dunn McKee. Dated 1922.
Item 45: Albert Parker Niblack (1859–1929). Cabinet card. “Your Naval Attaché Always, Berlin, March 22, 1912.” Photograph by Hofphotogr. Sandau, Unter den Linden 19, Berlin. Niblack was a United States admiral who served during the First World War.
Item 46: Grace Vallé January (1852–1919). Cabinet card. Dated 1873. Photograph by Mora, 707 Broadway, New York.
Item 47: Jessie Vallé. Cabinet card. Photograph by Scholten, Nos. 920 & 922 Olive Street, Cor. 10th Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Item 48: Henry (Jean-Héliodore) Vignaud (1830–1922). “To my young friend R.W. Bliss.” Photo taken by V.S. Frank. Typescript label on back: “During Mr. Vignaud’s long and brilliant career he was ever the first to reach the Office, the last to leave. During the Hispano-American war, he used to sleep at the Chancery- ever alert for instructions from Washington. He is a man who believes that ‘an ounce of work is worth more than a ton of talk’ and his monumental work proves it.” Vignaud served as secretary to the American legation in Paris (1875–1909).
Item 49: Jane, Frederick, and Rhoda Whitridge.
Item 50: Almroth Edward Wright (1861–1947). Photograph of a drawing. Sir Almroth Edward Wright was a British bacteriologist and immunologist.
