Miss Johnson and Emma Barrett Boyd, Los Angeles, circa 1902

Item Overview

Title

Miss Johnson and Emma Barrett Boyd, Los Angeles, circa 1902

Alternative title

Boyd family

Photographer

Sunbeam Art Studio

Date Created

[1902-1910]

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Studio portrait of Miss Johnson (left) and Emma P. Barrett Boyd standing beside a pedestal with relief ornament and a trailing vine.
Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947.

Caption

On back of original photograph: Sunbeam Art Studio, 236-238 S. Main, L. A. Calif.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

African American women

Names

Boyd, Emma P. Barrett, 1874-1970

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.04992

Latitude

-118.24498

Resource type

still image