“It seems to me it would be a very valuable thing if you could carry out your plan to make accurate water-color studies of the Read More »
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Eva Fényes and Boadway Brothers Department Store
It was an enormous pit, a huge gaping excavation that threatened to undermine Cabrillo Place. The bungalows and shops teetered on the edge of a Read More »
The Smart Set
Eva Fényes with “Fairy,” one of her many Chihuahua dogs. (Photograph by Albert Hiller, Pasadena, California. Main Photo Collection, PHS16-23) Eva Fényes’ Chihuahuas, 1904. Read More »
Leaving the Past Behind & Starting Anew in Pasadena
Eva Scott Muse, circa 1884, photo by Julius Ludovici’s Photographic and Crayon Studios, Newport, Rhode Island. (FCP.38.1.5b) “Dr. Adalbert Fényes, wife, and daughter of New Read More »
Cooking with Eva: Hungarian Recipes for Adalbert
Amongst the cookbooks in the Fényes Mansion and the family papers in the Archives are handwritten vintage recipes from a century ago. Some of Eva Read More »
Travels with Eva Fényes: An Auto Trip to Los Olivos, 1917
Eva’s destination in 1917 was Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos. Several times over the years, she stayed at Mattei’s on her trips north. The first Read More »
Fall 2017 Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature - The Benshoff Collection Hotel Green Street Lamp (Benshoff Family Collection, WAB-058) Our Archives houses the marvelous Benshoff Family Collection, which contains architectural Read More »
Chi lo sa’s Basket: Trunk, Prison, Hiding-place, & More
Chi lo sa’s basket, circa 1890. (FCP Collection, 2000.019.5261) Among the many artifacts being inventoried this summer in the basement of Fényes Mansion is a Read More »
Summer 2017 Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature - Going Places with Frank Purcell Composite of Scrapbook Cover & Page 1, 1949. (Scrapbook Collection - Volume 77) In 1949, as California Read More »
Reading with Eva Fényes
Eva Scott Fényes, Port Said, Egypt, 22 November 1895 (FCP Collection, ESF.008.1884) Looking for something a little different to read this summer? Well, Lizzie Steidel, Read More »
