Avila and Fraters Families Photographs and Papers

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Avila and Fraters Families Photographs and Papers

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Table of contents

Box 1

Photographs

Box 1, Folder 1

Avila family, various portraits

Box 1, Folder 2

Joseph Fraters, Petra Avila Fraters, their children, and Los Angeles house

Box 1, Folder 3

Lugo family, various portraits

Box 1, Folder 4

Various families, identified people

Scope and Contents

Petra Avila Fraters appears in two photographs with other people.

Box 1, Folder 5

Unidentified portraits, taken by Los Angeles photographers

Box 1, Folder 6

Unidentified portraits, taken in California, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts

Box 1, Folder 7

Unidentified portraits, taken by unknown photographers

Box 2

Documents, photographs, and autograph album

Box 2, Folder 1

Documents 1859-1878

Scope and Contents

Tax receipt (1859) and communion certificates (1875, 1878).

Box 2, Folder 2

Documents 1898

Scope and Contents

Marriage license certificate for Joseph August Fraters and Petra Avila, Los Angeles County, October 5, 1898.

Box 2, Folder 3

Documents 1902-1911

Scope and Contents

Items related to the Avila (also spelled Abila), Fraters, Palomares, and Yorba families. Also undated clippings about Dona Laura Garfias de Lainesse and Reginaldo F. Del Valle and a program for the Celebration, Carnival and Street Fair in San Rafael, California, July 2-5, 1902.

Box 2, Folder 4

Documents 1913-1917

Scope and Contents

Items related to Graciosa Vejar; Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Zoilo Vejar and Francisca (Yorba) Vejar's marriage announcement for their daughter Graciosa Vangelin to William Merrill Pipkin, 1917.

Box 2, Folder 5

San Quentin Prison entertainment programs 1900-1903

Scope and Contents

Handmade programs for minstrel shows and concerts organized and performed by prisoners at San Quentin Prison, 1900 to 1903. The programs appear to be mimeograph copies with drawings, song titles and names of organizers and performers of the San Quentin Band and San Quentin Minstrel and Comedy Company.

Box 2, Folder 6

Petra Avila Fraters, framed photograph

Box 2, Folder 7

Prudenciana Ruiz de Avila, framed photograph

Scope and Contents

Mother of Petra Avila.

Box 2, Folder 8

Felipe Avila, framed photograph

Scope and Contents

Father of Petra Avila.

Box 2, Folder 9

Petra Avila's autograph album 1889-1896

Scope and Contents

Petra Avila's autograph album, dated 1889 to 1896, contains handwritten notes, poems and drawings by family members and friends, with color decals of love sentiments attached to some pages. The signers added their Los Angeles neighborhoods after their names: Compton, Vernon, Florence, Green Meadows and Tajuata. There are entries by Petra's siblings Ernest, Hernaldo, Anastacio, and Carolina Avila; P. [Pedro?] Lugo; and others with surnames that include Van Dorn, Belieu, Palomares, Schulze, Wright, Redding, Fogal, Rivera, Sanchez, Ochoa, Stoppel, Sawyer and Browning.

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