[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by BifRayRock

Fascinating details



We've seen these images on NLA many times since their first posting. (Now it seems whatever gets posted here, somehow ends up elsewhere, occasionally with a reference.)


Circa 1900 - (unidentified) Shatto family members
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/2600




Wonder about the Shatto home ground covering. From a distance, everything looks well manicured. Closer views indicated a "rough" rather than "smooth" covering. Was it an indigenous (drought-tolerant) grass? Succulents? Iceberg plants? Assume the landscape required constant maintenance? (Cue the leafblowers and auto sprinklers.)











Circa 1892
http://waterandpower.org/Historical%20Photos%202/Shatto_ca1892.jpg




http://militantangeleno.blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html



(Source presently unknown)



Circa 1900
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/2601














Duplicate of GW image, with slightly more detail.

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15150coll2/id/19054

Born August 15, 1850
Medina County, Ohio
Died May 30, 1893 (aged 42)
Ravenna, California

I thought it might be good to know just who was George Shatto. Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shatto