Theresa Bel Virginia Harper Danley was the sister of Helena H. Harper Coates and Calvin B. Harper. She married Samuel Bober Danley and her daughter was Margaret Helena Danley.
Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Manila and Gladys Owens were the great-granddaughters of Biddy Mason and Robert Owens, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners (daughters of Robert Curry Owens and Anna Dugged Owens).
Circa 1899 watercolor view of Julian, a mountain town in San Diego County. Julian experienced a gold rush that began with the discovery of gold by A. E. "Fred" Coleman, a former slave.
Letter of recommendation for Alfred Thomas Quinn from Marcus O. Tucker, M.D on office letterhead dated 24 August 1942. 424 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, Calif, Office 63303 Residence:5-3433. Text: To Whom it may concern: This is to certify that I have known Alfred T. Quinn Jr. for six years and during that time, he has been a young man of excellent habits, and a character above reproach. He is a worthy and deserving young man.
Preface by Santō Kyōden in Kyōwa 4 [1804]: "享和四歳次/甲子春発兌醒世老人/山東京傳述" ; 黄表紙 [kibyōshi] (popular fiction published in two to three volumes each printed on 5 leaves with yellow cover during the late 18th-early 19th centuries ; one type of 草双紙 [kusazōshi], pictorial popular books, published in Edo).