' Carnival, San Francisco, 1880: Mrs.
Blake-Alverson as Charity Pecksniff; H.G.
Sturtevant as Pecksniff; Alice Van Winkle as Mercy
Pecksniff; Dolly Sroufe, Italian Booth; Henry Van
Winkle, Cervantes Booth _faces page_ 140

Mme. Bowers, Etelka Gerster, Julie Rive-King,
Associates and Friends of Mrs. Blake-Alverson _faces page_ 144

Deer Park Cabin, Lake Tahoe, Dedicated July 4,
1893. Col. Richard Parnell, Sole Survivor of the
Battle of Balaklava _faces page_ 148

Mrs. Blake-Alverson in 1852, 1864, 1874, 1880,
1905 _faces page_ 156

A Group of Friends, Distinguished Singers in the
Seventies and Eighties: Mrs. Margaret C. Pierce,
Mrs. Sarah Watkins-Little, Mrs. Blake-Alverson,
Mrs. Helen Wetherbee, Mrs. Marriner-Campbell _faces page_ 160

Lee Tung Foo, Pupil in the Nineties _faces pages_ 164 _and_ 166

Mrs. Blake-Alverson and Her Two Sons, Wm. Ellery
Blake, George Lincoln Blake _faces page_ 172

Associated Musicians and Singers, 1854-1900:
Frederick Zech, Henry Wetherbee, Adolph Klose, S.
Arrillaga, William P. Melvin, John W. Metcalf, Wm.
M'F. Greer _faces page_ 176

Trophies and Tributes Presented Mrs. Blake-Alverson _faces page_ 180

"Sam" Booth, Popular Political Poet and Campaign
Singer in San Francisco in the Seventies _page_ 184

Mechanics' Institute Fair, 1879. Mrs. Blake-Alverson
in Costume _faces page_ 188

Civil War Mailing Envelopes, 1861. Co. K, Seventh
California Volunteers, Capt O.P. Sloat, from San
Bernardino, 1898 _faces page_ 192

Stephen W. Leach, Musical Director, Buffo Singer,
Actor in San Francisco in the Seventies and Eighties _faces page_ 228

Joran Quartette, 1883: Lulu, Pauline and Elsie
Joran and Mrs. Blake-Alverson _faces page_ 246

PORTRAITS OF PUPILS

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Akerly, Mrs. 240
Allison, George 244
Ames, Lucille E. 268
Avan, Clara 224

Bassford, Mrs. Mayme 236
Beam, Edith