Daisy Kellum poses on a sofa in her home, Los Angeles, about 1899

Item Overview

Title

Daisy Kellum poses on a sofa in her home, Los Angeles, about 1899

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

[circa 1899]

Date

1899

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Daisy Kellum posing while sitting on a sofa in her family's home. Daisy Kellum sits at center on a sofa. She leans towards the left and rests an elbow on a pillow. She tilts her head to the left and rests it on her hand as she gazes up towards the right. Daisy rests her other hand in her lap. The sofa's arm sits along the left edge. Pillows are piled to the right of it. The sofa extends across the image and out-of-frame at right. In the background, curtains hang down behind Daisy at left and pictures hang from the wall behind her at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1709. Los Angeles, California, about 1899. The Kellums. The Kellum family move from 224 East 24th street to either Clanton or Stamford [sic] street, near Eighth street. The number on the house is 1416 so they may have been down by 14th street. Forget now. 15 individual pictures of Daisy Kellum taken at this location. 15 films.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
black-and-white photographs

Names

Kellum, Daisy

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sofas
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles