Name/Title
A cabinet card photograph of two young women on the porch of an unusual house, possibly Santa MonicaEntry/Object ID
2012.232.1.1Description
A cabinet card photograph of two young women on the porch of a house, Garden City Foto Company, ca. 1900. The front yard and house is in view. The home sits on a raised foundation and appears to be clapboard. It has a type of gambrel roof on the left side, a gabled peak on the middle, and a slant roof on the right. The young ladies are identified as Effie and Maud Boren, who, in 1900, resided with their mother and stepfather on 6th Street in Santa Monica. The girls' father, Beverly Boren, was from Castle Sowerby, England, not far from where William Workman was born in Temple Sowerby. He also resided in Liverpool and converted to the Mormon faith there. Coming to America in 1844 with his family, Boren moved to the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois. Shortly before the violence that killed Joseph Smith there, the Borens had moved and eventually went to Salt Lake City in 1847. Boren came to San Bernardino and lived there and at Los Angeles at different times before his death in 1888. His wife remarried to William Heimer and spent much of the rest of her life at Santa Monica. With abrasions along the edges, mostly to the corners, minor fading, moderate foxing, it is in fair condition.
