Authors' 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 FACES PAGE Akerly, Mrs. 240 Allison, George 244 Ames, Lucille E. 268 Avan, Clara 224