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Title |
May K. Rindge, 1930s |
Catalog Number |
FF-173 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
May K. Rindge visiting the Adamson House, 1930s. Still looking fit and determined, May reposed on the east balcony of the Adamson House in front of the Peacock Fountain. May visited but never lived in the Adamson House; she spent all of her years after Frederick's death at their home on Harvard Blvd. May would die February 8, 1940, after an illness of two years. When her will was filed for probate early the following year, her estate declared $750 in cash; nothing else. Her personal inheritance after Frederick's death in 1905 had been valued at 7 million dollars. In 1940, at the end of the Great Depression, that would have been worth perhaps 9 million dollars. To give a sense of her wealth at the time, her original inheritance would today (2013) be worth over 700 million dollars. In addition, she inherited the Rindge home on Harvard Blvd as her exclusive property, and she also owned exclusively the eastern 1/3 of Rancho Malibu, deeded to her at the time she and Frederick purchased that property in 1891-2. May specified in her will that whatever assets she had at the time of her death were to be divided equally between her daughter, Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson, and her grandson (through Frederick Rindge Jr.), Frederick Rindge III, who had lived with her at the Harvard Blvd. residence from the age of two on. He had just turned fourteen years old at the time of her death. He died in 1996, and Rhoda Agatha, his aunt, died in 1962. |
Photographer |
uk |
Copyright |
POF |
Search Terms |
Adamson House |
People |
Rindge, May Knight |
Status |
Restricted |