Reminiscences of Janette Howard Wallace by Wallace, Janette Howard signed first edition
Pre-ISBN Book
Edition: presumed. Binding: VeloBind w/ clear plastic front, paper back, black plastic spine. Publisher: "The Farm", California? Date published: 1986Description: Author inscribed to a friend. Text block clean, bright, and tight with slight toning. Light rubbing to the front cover. Some wear to the back paper cover with a bump to the top back corner and last page only. 79 p. 8.5 x 11 inches. Family Tree and historic photos. Reminiscences of family life in the John Galen Howard household in Berkeley, Nevada City, Carmel, and Santa Cruz, Calif.; the Berkeley fire of 1923; the family's residence in various homes designed by her father, who also founded the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley; their friendship with the Warren Gregorys; and a trip to Paris in 1920. Included is background information relating to the family's history, and to her brothers: John Langley, Henry Temple, Robert Boardman, and Charles Houghton Howard. With photocopies of historic family photographs. Born in 1909, the youngest child, she was raised in Berkeley, graduated from UC School of Architecture in 1927, married Ralph Whitmore Wallace in 1932, had two children, and moved to Palo Alto in 1936. They had a summer home in Santa Cruz, to which she moved full-time in 1972. She served with the Red Cross during and after WWII. Her interests included extensive world travel, writing, and gardening until her passing at age 92.