86:15900-684

(Documentary Artifact): One b/w negative of a view of ‘Mason’s House.’ Image shows house with thatched roof and attached ramada. Two other structures are nearby. Location may be near Vallecito.

Notes on negative envelope:
86:15900-684/ Davis Coll/ 86 dup/ Desert – Mason’s House/ April 1911

According to additional information provided on 10/2011 by Ken Hedges, Emeritus Curator of California Collections, San Diego Museum of Man and a member of the E.H. Davis Project Scholar Advisory Committee: This is the old Mason ranch house in Mason Valley. A photo in the Museum of Man (Rogers collection, historic component of site C-144, image C-0144-029) shows the structures in much more deteriorated condition, probably in the 1930s.