# Dewenter Home Movies: Misc. 4

Henry John Dewenter was born in Peckelsheim, Germany in 1884. Elizabeth Auer was born in Austria in 1889. Both immigrated to the US in 1907. They were married in 1914 in Los Angeles. They purchased land in Southern California, and oil was discovered on the property. They built up an orange ranch north of La Verne, California, now on the National Register of Historic Places (listed as the DeWenter Ranch/DeWenter Mansion). The elder Henry Dewenter passed away in LA in 1954 and Elizabeth passed away in 1962. They had two sons, Henry Adolf Dewenter (1915-1992), and Paul Dewenter (b. 1917). Filmmaker's inventory notes: Catalina, 1934; Joe House Camp \[?\] Santa Catalina Island Harbor Swimming Seaplane \[Wilmington-Catalina Airline Ltd.\] Passengers boarding airplane Sign: Bird Farm Birds in aviary Seals in water Swimming and diving in harbor Sign: Elizabeth Lodge Salton Buttes, California Sign: Mullet Island Sign: Hell's Kitchen

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1934
- By: Henry & Elizabeth Dewenter
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CHMHUB31MISC4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/CHMHUB31MISC4?play=1)