Wood (Edith M.) of Long Beach Photograph album containing snapshots of California, 1909-1920

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Title:
Photograph album of Edith M. Wood of Long Beach, containing snapshots of California
Dates:
1909-1920
Creators:
Wood, Edith M., fl. 1909-1918.
Abstract:
Family snapshot album documenting people, places, pets, cars, and events in the life of Edith M. Wood, of 125 Cedar Ave., Long Beach, California, between ca. 1909 to ca. 1918. Probable range of dates from scattered dates supplied in album captions.
Extent:
1 album (363 photographic prints) : b&w, 26 x 34 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of Edith M. Wood of Long Beach, containing snapshots of California (Collection 94/161). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

The album records family travel and vacations, and includes several shots of family members at the [Long Beach?] train station, with luggage; on deck aboard the steamship "The President, with fellow passenger "Mr. Macomber of Pasadena, Cal.", identified as A. Kingsley Macomber (1874-1955), founding owner and first president of the Los Angeles Trust Company, and developer, with Henry Huntington and William R. Staats, of the Oak Knolls subdivision between Pasadena and San Marino; and a view from the ship of Dead Man's Island, near San Pedro, Calif. Other travel and vacation photographs include views of friends and family members in Oakland, Sacramento (Nov. 1915), Big Bear Lake, Mt. Lowe (June 6, 1915), Camp Rincon in Azusa (Summer 1916), San Diego and San Diego Fair Grounds (Sept. 1916), Forest Home (July 4, 1916), and Oak Wilde Camp in the San Gabriel Mts., at the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and Dark Canyon. Many of the snapshots record the Wood family's time at the beach and amusement pier in Long Beach, and include views of the famous Cyclone Racer roller coaster on the pier, the Bath House, and family and friends wearing typical beach dresses and bathing costumes. They also pose often at their home--both in exterior and interior shots--often with parents, and children. The Wood family obviously cherished their pets--mostly small terriers, but also cats and squirrels--as well as their cars, one of which is an early Elmore model, probably from 1909. There is one photo of a summer home in Ft. Point, Maine, belonging to C.L. Webster. Other names of friends and acquaintances appearing in the album include Eugene Barton, Charley Stearns, June Bennett, H.C. Brown (possibly Herbert Cutler Brown, married at that time to Zoe Elsie Lowe, daughter of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, both of whom pose at the Alpine Tavern on Mt. Lowe), Los Angeles businessman Charles R. Hadley (whose Wilshire Blvd. home is photographed); and J.E. Shrewsberry, Fire Chief of Long Beach, who was killed in a car crash on May 2, 1916. Several photographs show close-ups of the wrecked automobile in which Chief Shrewsberry died. Also included are 17 photographs from Sept.-Oct. 1918, during World War I, documenting service of Edith Wood and her girl friends as "farmerettes" in the Woman's Land Army of America in Upland, Calif., where they took over harvesting of citrus crops after the men had been called to war. Sixteen snapshots show Edith and friends in WLA uniforms, picking fruit in the orchards, perched in the branches of orange trees, on ladders, and in farm wagons. There is also a shot of a group of young people atop an early rhomboid-shaped tank at the 4th Liberty Loan Drive in Oct. 1918, organized to raise money to support the war efforts.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Dr. Richard Lingenfelter, 1977.
Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Physical facet:

Photographs are mounted on first 48 of 50 leaves of stiff black paper, with two photos mounted on back pastedown; some scattered captions, and two poems added in white ink, probably by album owner Edith Wood; two photographs laid in, in mylar sleeve.

Bound in dark brown cloth covers, tied with black silk cord threaded through two grommets along left edge; gold-stamped cover title "Photographs."

Spec. Coll. copy: In modern beige cloth-covered clamshell box.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: 2013 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of Edith M. Wood of Long Beach, containing snapshots of California (Collection 94/161). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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