Name/Title
THREE UNKNOWN WOMEN AT THE HOME OF PIO PICOEntry/Object ID
96.7.21.2Description
Color: Black; White
A black and white photograph of three unknown women at the home of Pio Pico, ca. 1920s. The women stand on a brick floor at the center with the woman at the middle in costume. She wears a flower in her head, a mantilla, and a pleaded flower-pattern dress. The woman at the left wears a hat, sleeveless dress, heels, and holds a purse over her right forearm. The woman at the right wears a hat; long necklace; sweater; a long flower-pattern dress; heels; and holds a purse over left forearm. All three women look and smile at the camera. To the far right are bushes, and at the left of the back are more bushes, a trellis, and a shingled roof-top. At the right of the background is a barbed-wire fence and trees. At the bottom left corner of the back is a stamp with the words, "ANDERSON / Photo Service / EL MONTE," and the number, "33." The photograph was housed in Agnes Temple's album which is item 96.7.94.1 along with many other photographs which span 96.7.1.1-.93.1. Contact sheets 2000.159.1.1-.8 show the original positioning of the images within the album. With stains along the top, the artifact is in fair condition.
Number-Units: 1Lexicon
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Courtyards, GardensSearch Terms
Two-dimensional, Photographs, Anderson Photo Service, Clothing and dress, Historic buildings--Whittier (Calif.)