Lily Frémont flower album, 1859

Summary

Creator:

Frémont, Lily, 1842-

Abstract:

An album of pressed flowers collected by Lily Frémont in 1859.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by May Oyler and Louis Miller, 2017

Background

Scope and Content:

The Lily Frémont fllower album is an album of pressed flowers and drawings made by Elizabeth Benton (Lily) Frémont (1842-1919). The album has a brown leather cover with "Album" written in gilt lettering. Frémont made the album in 1859 when her family was living in California at their estate in Mariposa and their home on San Francisco Bay. The first two pages of the album hold drawings, one of a small house surrounded by trees with a large hill behind it, possibly the Frémont home in Mariposa, the other showing a small group of buildings and a smokestack below a large hill, possible a silver mine. The rest of album contains pressed flowers and plants, each is numbered with a written description. Frémont provides the names to some flowers though many are unidentified. She also gives the date and location where each flower was found, and often describes its soil conditions, growing patterns, seasonality, color and odor. There are 80 total specimens in the album.

Biographical / Historical:

Lily Frémont (1843-1919) was the eldest child of Jessie Benton Frémont and John C. Frémont, the American explorer, army officer, and politician. Lily was born on November 15, 1842 in Washington D.C.. She never married or had any children. She died on May 28, 1919 in Los Angeles, California.

Acquisition Information:

The Bookseller Inc., Akron, OH, 2006. P-2493 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Related Materials

The Clements Library contains the following items that relate to Lily Frémont:

• California and Western Tour photograph album 1893
• Frémont, Lily, and Ismena Teresa Martin. Recollections of Elizabeth Benton Frémont: Daughter of the Pathfinder General John C. Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont, His Wife. New York: F.H. Hitchcock, 1912.

Bibliography

"Elizabeth Benton (Lily) Frémont." Sharlot Hall Museum - Territorial Women's Rose Garden. Web. Accessed May 26, 2016.

"Elizabeth Benton "Lily" Frémont." Find a Grave. Web. Accessed May 26, 2016.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Prints shelf.
Dried flower arrangement.
Flowers--California--1850-1860.
Flowers--Collection and preservation.
Flowers--Drying.

Formats:

Albums.
Pencil works.

Names:

Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902.
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Frémont, Lily, 1842-