DALI, SALVADOR, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT KING GEORGE VI OF ENGLAND, AND OTHERS. Guest book containing numerous signatures of visitors and social contacts, 8vo, dated 1916-1959. Tooled brown calfskin gilt, floral decorative endpapers. Covers worn at extremities, contents somewhat loose with some leaves detached, minor handling wear, smudges, and spotting.
Provenance: Given by Spreckels to Jean Scott Frickelton, public relations executive at the San Francisco Museum of Science and Industry; thence to Helen Wood Burton [1910-2004] of Palo Alto, CA (autograph note by Burton loosely inserted).
THE GUEST BOOK OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN, filled with well wishes and signed by a fascinating cross-section of 20th century luminaries, including Marie, Queen of Romania, Beatriz, the Infanta of Spain, Henriette, Duchess of Vendome/Princess of Belgium, George, Prince of Wales (the future King George VI), and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, General Joseph Joffre, August Rodin, astronomer Camille Flammarion, Salvador Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. San Francisco socialite Spreckels, sometimes known as "Big Alma" due to her 6-foot stature, convinced her husband, sugar baron Adolph Spreckels, to build and endow an art museum in Lincoln Park on the edge of San Francisco's Presidio. Modeled after the French pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, the museum was named, as it remains to this day, the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Because of Spreckels's deep ties to Paris and her charitable work there during World War I, she was herself knighted by the French with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor at the museum's opening in 1924.
DALI, SALVADOR, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT KING GEORGE VI OF ENGLAND, AND OTHERS. Guest book containing numerous signatures of visitors and social contacts, 8vo, dated 1916-1959. Tooled brown calfskin gilt, floral decorative endpapers. Covers worn at extremities, contents somewhat loose with some leaves detached, minor handling wear, smudges, and spotting.
Provenance: Given by Spreckels to Jean Scott Frickelton, public relations executive at the San Francisco Museum of Science and Industry; thence to Helen Wood Burton [1910-2004] of Palo Alto, CA (autograph note by Burton loosely inserted).
THE GUEST BOOK OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN, filled with well wishes and signed by a fascinating cross-section of 20th century luminaries, including Marie, Queen of Romania, Beatriz, the Infanta of Spain, Henriette, Duchess of Vendome/Princess of Belgium, George, Prince of Wales (the future King George VI), and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, General Joseph Joffre, August Rodin, astronomer Camille Flammarion, Salvador Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. San Francisco socialite Spreckels, sometimes known as "Big Alma" due to her 6-foot stature, convinced her husband, sugar baron Adolph Spreckels, to build and endow an art museum in Lincoln Park on the edge of San Francisco's Presidio. Modeled after the French pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, the museum was named, as it remains to this day, the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Because of Spreckels's deep ties to Paris and her charitable work there during World War I, she was herself knighted by the French with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor at the museum's opening in 1924.
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