Name/Title
LUCINDA TEMPLE ZUNIGA AT BASYE ADOBE, CA. 1890SEntry/Object ID
97.8.1.12Description
LUCINDA TEMPLE ZUNIGA AT BASYE ADOBE, CA. 1890S
Negative, Photographic: A black and white photographic negative of Lucinda Temple Zuniga standing in front of the Basye Adobe, ca. 1890s. Mrs. Zuniga stands at center wearing a dark skirt, light blouse wit dark neck scarf and has her left arm behind her on a hitching rail with her right arm bent at the waist. Behind her is the adobe with four discernible portions; at extreme left is part of a shingled porch cover; at left is a door with white blind and a dual framed window; at center is a porch, screened door, and window with a birdcage at one end and a vine at the other end of the porch; at right, is the store and saloon of Lucinda's husband, Manuel, with a lettered false front identifying the building and two doors and three shuttered windows, one of these last open. Rough rail hitching posts span the length of the image. A print is 97.8.2. In mint condition. On the source photograph in ink at the lower right is, "Lucinda Suniga-stepmother." Manuel Zuniga's daughter, Leonora, was mother of the source, Carlos Hartnell.
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Documentary Artifact, Negatives, Adobe houses--Los Angeles County (Calif.), Commercial buildings--Los Angeles County (Calif.)