Flowers family portrait, Portland, circa 1902

Item Overview

Title

Flowers family portrait, Portland, circa 1902

Alternative title

Allen E. Flowers and family

Date Created

[circa 1902]

Date

1902

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Studio portrait of Allen E. Flowers and Louisa Flowers with their sons Loyd, Ralph, Elmer and Ervin.
Allen E. Flowers owned a farm in Oregon. He was listed as a divorced church sexton in 1880. Louisa Flowers was from Massachusetts. Her father was from Massachusetts and her mother was from Puerto Rico.

Caption

Written on back of photo: Mr. & Mrs. Allen E. Flowers and family, Portland, Oregon, lived for a time in California.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Flowers, Elmer Allen, 1888-1968
Flowers, Ralph Perpeno, 1887-1961
Flowers, Louisa Matilda Thacker, 1849-1928
Flowers, Allen E. (Allen Ervin), 1847-1934
Flowers, Loyd Alonzo, 1884-1951
Flowers, Ervin M., b. 1891

Subject Geographic

Portland (Or.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American farmers
African American families