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California Wild Flowers: Six Reproductions in Natural Colors from Water Color Drawings: California Poppy Scarlet Bugler Brodiaea Cream Cups Owl's Clover Wild Pansy

1905ref. 026820Pasadena: Charles Francis and Elisabeth HAllowell Saunders 1905. First Edition . Brown Chemise / String Binding. Fine. 11" x 5 1/2. Color Plates By Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders. String-bound text pages title page printed in red and black with five of six loose color plates lacking the California Poppy plate in brown three-panel chemise printed in black and red as issued.Scarce second separate publication by the Saunders issued in two versions one with 6 wild flowers another with 12. Charles Francis Saunders 1859-1941 was born to Quaker parents in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He and his first wife Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders d. 1910 were both avid naturalists; Charles began publishing essays on botany as early as the 1890s. Charles and Elisabeth also collaborated on a number of publications he as author she as illustrator. After a honeymoon trip to California and the Southwest in 1902 the couple moved permanently to California in 1906 and settled in a Craftsman bungalow on North Lake Avenue in Pasadena where Charles devoted himself full time to writing. He eventually published more than a dozen books inspired by California and the Southwest. Both Charles and Elisabeth were amateur photographers and many of their photographs were used to illustrate Saunders' books The Indians of the Terraced Houses 1912 and Under the Sky in California 1913. In 1921 Saunders married Mira Barrett Culin d. 1968 whom he had met at the Pasadena Garden Club. Also a writer Mira shared Saunders' interest in gardens botany and photography. For many years Mira published articles on Pasadena gardens parks and trees in the Pasadena Star News for which she took dozens of photographs. First with Elisabeth and then with Mira Saunders travelled extensively throughout California and the Southwest photographing all of the California Missions the regions' natural wonders Native Americans and flora among other things. These interests became the subjects of 18 books and numerous essays and articles Saunders published in his lifetime. Many of these books were illustrated with photographs taken by their author on his many excursions. Saunders' collection of Native American pottery and crafts is now in the collection of the Southwest Museum Los Angeles and his botanic library is in the possession of the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens. Source: Apostol Jane. "Southern California Through the Lens of Charles Francis Saunders" Southern California Quarterly volume 81 Spring 1999: 1-88. Charles Francis and Elisabeth HAllowell Saunders unknown

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