CIRCA 1910 Booklet ST. HELENA CALIFORNIA SANITARIUM Napa County PEDRO LEMOS

Description

CIRCA 1910
Booklet
ST. HELENA CALIFORNIA SANITARIUM
Napa County
PEDRO LEMOS
DESCRIPTION:
Circa 1910
pamphlet
ST. HELENA CALIFORNIA SANITARIUM
,
The Oldest and Largest Heath Institution in the West Devoted to the Principles of Hydrotherapy and Physiological Therapeutics
;
Published by St. Helena California Sanitarium, Sanitarium [City], Napa Valley, California; stapled paper wrappers; 31 numbered pages; over 70 photographic illustrations in and around the sanitarium [some grouped in vignettes]; measuring 8-1/2 inches by 6 inches.
DATE:
Circa 1910;
text
mentions auto-stages and shows a horse drawn coach;
Pedro Lemos
who designed the 2-page centerfold
studied under
Arthur Wesley Dow
in 1913. This effort shows little of Dow’s influences and likely precedes that date. The pictures are enhanced by externally designed borders in a style typical of the1910 period.
CONDITION:
NEAR FINE,
rust on staples
[see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security and are not on the actual item.
HISTORY:
Sanitarium (formerly, Crystal Springs, California) is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California and is located 2.5 miles north of Saint Helena.
The settlement was founded in 1878 by Seventh-day Adventists who opened a sanitarium that they called the Rural Health Retreat at Crystal Springs, later St. Helena Sanitarium, and now St. Helena Hospital. The community that developed around the sanitarium was called Sanitarium [Sanitarium post office was established in 1901].
Pedro Joseph de Lemos
(25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer and museum director in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name
Pedro Lemos
or
Pedro J. Lemos
;
between
1931
and
1933
he changed the family name to
de Lemos
, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos, patron of Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel, California.
SHIPPING:
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(code to locate the item)
]