ON VENTURA ROAD

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"ON VENTURA ROAD"

Entry/Object ID

2001.29.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Brown "On Ventura Road: A Joy Ride," by George Elmer Littlefield (Westwood: Ariel Press, ca. 1905), 7 pp. The booklet has a brown paper cover with the title at the top. Below this is, "A Day--Homeacre Way / AN IDYL [sic] OF LIBERTY." The name of the author is at the center while at the bottom is the price and name of the publisher. Also at the bottom is, "FELLOWSHIP FARM, PUENTE, CALIF." All of the latter printing is in black ink. The booklet includes two articles, the first of which describes a day in the life on the utopian Fellowship Farm and is entitled, "A Day--Homeacre Way." The second describes the journey which led to the founding of the commune on seventy-five acres in Puente and its members' ideals. The artifact is in fair condition with some creases, dents, soiling, and small stains.

Lexicon

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Pamphlets, Fellowship Farm, Ariel Press, Communal living--Los Angeles (Calif.), Utopian literature

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Pamphlets