Young girl in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s
Item Overview
- Title
- Young girl in the A. J. Roberts family, 1890s-1890s
- Alternative title
- Unidentified Roberts family
- Date Created
- [1890-1900]
- Date
- 1880/1900
- Collection
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Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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Studio portrait of a young girl standing beside a classicizing pedestal with a basket of flowers and a painted landscape backdrop. She is a member of the A. J. Roberts family, perhaps his daughter, Myrtle.
A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph