until he was 60 years old. They continued to live together in the family home in Mokelumne Hill. Irvine never recovered from the medical and emotional problems that she suffered from in her later years. Not long after her brother, Bob, was granted legal guardianship for her on 8 June 1949, she died at age of 65. In 1988, her small collection of photographs were donated to the Brigham Young University Library by her nephew, Jim Irvine, Bob’s son. Subject matter Irvine's black and white photograph Dead Horses attests to her photographic vision. At least four dead horses which were pulling carriages lie in their traces among broken carriages and brick rubble from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library at Brigham Young University holds 293 images in their Irvine Collection. They range in subject matter from landscapes, construction, and bridges, to everyday life including family portraits, infant deaths and Mokelumne Hill townscapes. Her work includes much variety, from a redwood forest to city buildings, as well as the earthquake and its effect on architecture, streetscapes, fires, and prevailing activities amidst the destruction. In 2005, five undiscovered photographs by Edith Irvine were found within a collection in southern California. They were all of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire. Edith had visited the Irvine Ranch more than once during her lifetime and possibly gave them to the Irvine family. Subsequently, those photos plus the entire collection of 1906 earthquake photographs from James Irvine were published in a book: Two Weeks in San Francisco: The Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Until the publication of that book, a vast majority of Irvine's photographs had never been published. Gallery References External links The Edith Irvine Collection and its History Digital Collections, Historical Photographs, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. 1884 births 1949 deaths 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American women photographers Harold B. Lee Library-related photography articles