This collection of photographs documents the early California life of members of the the Trafton and Crane families. The collection includes one letter from Alice E. Crane to her sister Emma Crane Trafton of Davisville, California as well as photographs portraying farm life and members of the Trafton and Crane families.

The Trafton-Crane family emigrated to California from Rhode Island in the early 1870s. The family settled in Davisville (later Davis); other Trafton relatives settled in the Watsonville area of Santa Cruz County.

0.4 linear feet

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Collection is open for research.