Emma P. Barrett Boyd, circa 1902
Item Overview
- Title
- Emma P. Barrett Boyd, circa 1902
- Alternative title
- Boyd family
- Date Created
- [1902-1910]
- Date
- 1902
- Collection
-
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
-
Studio portrait of Emma P. Barrett Boyd, in an oval mat frame, wearing a formal dress with a beadwork or sequined yoke, and a floral ribbon corsage. .
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- Portrait photographs
- Names
- Boyd, Emma P. Barrett, 1874-1970
- Subject Geographic
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- African American women