Nella Fontaine Binckley at Casanella: The Word from Philadelphia, 1911

California State Library authority card filled out and mailed in 1911 by Nella Fontaine Binckley, the artist formerly known as Ellen Binckley and Nellie F. Binckley. 

Name in full: Nella Fontaine Binckley. 
Place of birth: Washington, D.C.
Date: Too remote to mention.
Father: John Milton Binckley.
Mother: Mary Louisa Michel.
If married, to whom? No -- spinster.
Years spent in California: From 1890 to 1900.
Residences in State: San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara.
Present address: "Casanella," 525 Locust Ave., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 

[This address is about a block away from the Shrine of the Miraculous Medal].

[Ellen/Nellie/Nella Fontaine Binckley (September 1, 1860- April 27, 1951; she was not born in 1877 as she successfully hoaxed some time after returning from the West Coast to the East Coast in 1900 -- even here, in 1911, she mischievously claims her date of birth as "too remote to mention."] 

Many thanks to William Myers, Mary Davy and Sally Young for their ongoing research collaboration.