Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman

Art According to the History of Solano and Napa Counties, California, published 1912, "as a close student of nature [Lucy] has made a deep study of botany.... Her painted collection of California wild flowers numbers over three hundred." Lucy also taught painting at the Young Ladies' Seminary of Benicia.

Basket collecting History of Solano and Napa Counties, California noted that Mrs Peckinpah possessed "a fine collection of Indian baskets and curios," of which a portion are now held at the National Museum of the American Indian, that had been acquired by Homer Earle Sargent, Jr. after her death. In 1917, she had gifted a portion of the basket collection, and other items, to the Oakland Museum of California.

Botanical legacy

The History of Solano and Napa Counties, California notes that Lucy collected type material for multiple Californian species, two of which eponymise one of her married names: Rawson. Nemophila venosa Jeps., a synonym of Nemophila menziesii var. menziesii. Collomia rawsoniana Greene, or Rawson's Flaming Trumpet. Senecio rawsonianus Greene (a synonym of Senecio aronicoides DC.), or the Rayless Ragwort. Viola anodonta Greene.

Species collected by Lucy are today held by the Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Gardens, the Greene-Nieuwland Herbarium at the University of Notre Dame, and the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.