[CONNOLLY, VERA, 1888-1964; LEWIS, SINCLAIR, 1885-1951; STERLING, GEORGE, 1869-1926; and others.] Three photographs, including one signed: 1.) Louis S. Slevin (1878-1945). Signed by Slevin lower right. Novelist Sinclair Lewis with actress/musician Opal Heron Peet, both in costume for the annual Carmel arts and crafts Dutch Fair, c. 1910s. Opal was the wife of Herbert Heron Peet (1883-1968), who founded the Forest Theater in Carmel in 1910, one of the first Little Theaters in the country. Condition: Two corners torn/losses, one dampstained; corner pinhole, creases. 2.) Unknown photographer. Writer Vera Connolly (foreground), with four unidentified women, c. early 1900s. 6 15/16in x 5in. Condition: Good; pinhole, light staining. 3.) Unknown photographer. A seaside picnic (likely Monterey or Carmel): Vera Connolly, poet George Sterling, and novelist Sinclair Lewis (identified verso), c. 1910s. 6 3/8in x 4 7/8in. Condition: Entire top margin is torn/cut off; small corner/edge creases. Of Connolly and Sterling, who had a relationship, Elsie Martinez commented in her oral history, San Francisco Bay Area Writers and Artists (Bancroft Library, 1962-1969:196-197): "...well, that was the Vera Connolly affair". (Also see: "How an Abortion in 1910 Changed the World", Prendergast, gen.medium.com 2019.) From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989).