MUYBRIDGE EADWEARD (1830 1904) Mills Seminary Seminary Park

Sale 2208 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 13,200

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD (1830-1904)
"Mills Seminary, Seminary Park, Alameda Co., Cal." Mammoth albumen print, 15x21 1/4 (38.1x54 cm.), with Muybridge's credit, the title, publisher's information and notations printed on mount recto. 1873

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The publishers are Bradley Eldridge, Rulofson, San Francisco. The other notations read, "Compliments J.O. Eldridge."
Formerly in the collection of a Mills College Trustee; acquired from a private Denver dealer in 1990.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 50.
Former missionaries Cyrus and Susan Mills purchased the seminary in 1865 and moved its location to its present site in the Oakland foothills, changing its name to Mills Seminary. Mills Hall was built in 1871, and the young ladies who resided there ate vegetables from the school's garden and drank milk from the school's cow. Muybridge's photograph shows the women of Mills Seminary on the lawn in front of Mills Hall, which remains a landmark building on the campus today. Mills Hall, an Italianate/Second Empire building by Samuel Bugbee and Sons, is now at the center of the campus. Much of the lush landscaping was the result of Dr. Cyrus Mills's interest in horticulture, and provides the backdrop for an eclectic collection of buildings representing works by many of the region's notable architects and more than a century of Bay Area architecture.