Name/Title
Eliza DavisEntry/Object ID
TP20203Description
A black and white photographic print of Eliza Davis. She is posing for an outdoor photo, wearing spectacle glasses, a black shawl, gloves and a light color cap . To her right-hand side appears to be a brush pile and behind her looks like a shingled rooftop. On the reverse side is a stamp that reads, "GABRIEL MOULIN STUDIOS AUG 2 1939 153 KEARNY ST. S.F., CALIF."
Type: Paper
[May-July, 2025]: Amy Cohen from Exhibit Envoy has matched this "Unknown Person" photograph to a negative from the California State Library, file number: CSL_negGL2569_ElizaDavis -- which is a larger photograph and that this image was probably taken at the same time. Along the top-border of that negative, handwritten in cursive reads,
"Old Aunt Eliza Davis - negro. nearly 100 years old when she
died in Sonora. This is her red cabin at Sonora."
[remainder of writing is cut off]Collection
TCHS - Tuolumne County Historical SocietyLexicon
Search Terms
Population Group, Black Woman, negro woman