During her tenure, she kept a log of every book, magazine and map obtained by the Library with funds or through donations from the good citizens of Santa Monica. In 1890, Mosse became the first City Librarian and for the first 14 years, she was the only staffmember in the library. Courtesy of Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives/ Ernest Marquez Collection.īorn in San Francisco on December 12, 1867, Elfie Mosse moved to Santa Monica with her mother at a young age, following the untimely passing of her father. Elfie A. MosseĮlfie Mosse in the Children's Room of the Santa Monica Public Library, circa 1900. Her commitment to education was evidenced by gifts of land for schools and for a permanent location for the Bay City Women’s Club. She also supported the community by giving land for a Presbyterian Church and St. Around the beginning of the 20th Century, she donated land in Santa Monica Canyon to create the first experimental forestry station managed by Abbott Kinney, the founder of Venice. In 1891 she donated the land of today’s Pacific Palisades Park to the City of Santa Monica. Arcadia designed one of the first maps for the city, creating an original vision of land use in Santa Monica.Īrcadia, along with Colonel Baker, notably deeded the land for a National Home for Disabled Veterans in 1888, which is now the Veterans complex in Westwood. As a widow, she married again, this time to another wealthy landowner and one of the founders of the City of Santa Monica, Colonel Robert S. Born in 1825 in San Diego to a socially elite California family, she married a wealthy landowner at age 15 and moved to Los Angeles. Many considered Arcadia Bandini de Baker the “Godmother” of the City of Santa Monica because she had such an impact on current public use lands. Courtesy of Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives/ C.C. They accomplished a great deal without much fanfare and the impact of their hard work is still being felt today. In a year when TIME revealed “The Silence Breakers” as the Person of the Year, we want to celebrate three remarkable women in Santa Monica’s earlier days.
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