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Curtis, Ada Florence White, 1882-1982.
MANUSCRIPT : SMC II : BOX 23 : FOLDERS 1-3
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Title:

Curtis, Ada Florence White, 1882-1982
Curtis, Ada Florence White

Creator/Contributor:

Stout, Diane.

Abstract:

The Ada Florence White Curtis collection contains three folders, which include typescripts, photographs, family Bible pages with vital records, and assorted certificates.

Date:

1882 (issued)

Contents:

Folder 1. Contains a biography prepared by grandadaughter Diane Stout with a list of the photographs and clippings documenting Florence Curtis and her family at different time periods of her life. Sixteen photographs show scenes of the Elk Grove Ice Cream Parlor, the Cascade Laundry Truck, the Golden Glo restaurant along Sutter Street in Folsom, family portraits and a group portrait in Yosemite at Mirror Lake.
Folder 2. Personal typescript of Ada Florence Curtis that narrates her chronology and several pages from the family Bible that records the births and marriages of the family.
Folder 3. Three certificates: one is the birth certificate of Ada Florence White; the second is a certificate from volunteering in the IV Fighter Command of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Aircraft Warning Service; the third is a 50-year membership in the Improved Order of Red Men Degree of Pocahontas, signed by The Great Incohonee, Burton R. Davis, and the Great Chief of Records, Robert E. Dorin.

Subject:

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Curtis, Ada Florence White -- 1882-1982
Elk Grove (Calif.)
Folsom (Calif.)
Sacramento (Calif.) -- History
Sacramento (Calif.) -- Photographs
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Photographs

Note:

Curtis, Ada Florence White, 1882-1982.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Narrated in the personal typescript, Ada Florence White was born in Illinois to Elmer White and Betty More White in 1882. Although her family lived in various places, Ada attended school in San Diego where she concentrated on music, piano, violin and harmony. Using those skills, she played the piano in silent movies and also played in a little orchestra at a lodge on Mt. Wilson near Los Angeles. At the age of 18, while living in Randsburg, she married Frank Mann and had a son, Al Mann. Ada married a second time to Homer Curtis and lived in Elk Grove where she and her husband operated the Elk Grove Ice Cream Parlor and the Cascade Laundry, as well as raised chickens and tended a vegetable garden. Another son, Earl Don Curtis, and a daughter, Marian Eleanor Curtis, were born.
In 1926 Ada (Florence) moved to Folsom to begin her business as a restaurateur by purchasing the Golden Glo restaurant on Sutter Street and renting a room on Natoma Street. Homer Curtis and the two children stayed in Sacramento and continued to operate the Cascade Laundry Service and the Elk Grove Ice Cream Parlor. Ada (Florence) volunteered with the U.S. Army Air Forces, Aircraft Alert Services and was honored with a certificate for 81 hours of service. She was a member of the Rebekah's Eastern Star and the Improved Order of Red Men, Degree of Pocahontas, from which there is a colorful certificate.
Gift of granddaughter, Diane Stout, 2006.

Type:

Portraits.
Group portraits.

Physical Description:

3 folders : 16 photographs ; 6 x 8 in. or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT : SMC II : BOX 23 : FOLDERS 1-3

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.