Descriptive Summary
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Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Selby, Coombs and Bettinger Family Photographs
Dates: 1860-1935
Collection Number: 1988-239
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .5 linear feet (71 photographs)
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Repository:
History San Jose Research Library
San Jose, California 95112
Abstract: Collection of 71 family photographs related to the William E. & Lizzie Selby Coombs families, and their daughter Bessie Laverne
Coombs and her husband Ellsworth S. Bettinger.
Language of Material: English
Access
Collection is open to the public for research by appointment. Records are also viewable in History San Jose's online catalog.
Publication Rights
Contact History San Jose Research Library for information on publication and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Selby, Coombs and Bettinger Family Photographs. Collection Number: 1988-239. History San Jose Research
Library
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated to the San Jose Historical Museum in 1988.
Biography/Administrative History
Lizzie Coombs (1864-1939), nee Selby, one of the central figures in the collection, was the daughter of early Santa Clara
County pioneer and orchardist John S. Selby (b. 1834), who settled outside of San Jose in late 1853. With his wife, Sarah
Brelsford, he had five children: Mary (married William E. Trimble), Emma (married Edwin Abel), William H. (married Alice Meads),
Lizzie L., and G. Wray (married Carrie Woolsey). Lizzie married William Edward Coombs, son of William L. Coombs and Emma E.
Griswold. Lizzie and Edward had two children, Bessie Laverne and Leroy Selby. Bessie married Ellsworth S. Bettinger.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection of 71 family photographs related to the William E. and Lizzie Selby Coombs families, and their daughter Bessie
Laverne Coombs and her husband Ellsworth S. Bettinger. The majority of the photographs are portraits, all of them identified,
many of them cabinet photographs, with several cartes de visite and tintypes.
