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Arnaz School Near Ventura, Ventura Co., Cal. postcard
Hand-colored photographic postcard. Students of various ages and teachers are posing for a picture in front of the Arnaz School. The girls and women are wearing dresses. Most of the boys appear to be wearing bib-style overalls. The white clapboard…

Genoveva Spring At Wheeler's postcard
This view depicts four women and a man seated on rocks near a creek. Another man is standing next to them. An advertising message for "Genoveva Cold Mineral Water" appears to have been painted on a flat rock located between the women. Other rocks to…

Lisa Clark Crowned Miss Ventura County Fair
Image shows Lisa Clark as she is crowned Miss Ventura County Fair by Laurie McFerran, outgoing Miss Ventura Co. Fair. Clark shows a huge smile while holding a bouquet of flowers. Photo taken for the Ventura County Star Free Press on 9 Aug 1987,…

Women's Fashion Show Models
Group photo of fashion show by female models for Jack Rose in El
Jardin patio. Four models show off dresses on and near short set of steps leading into El Jardin. Two little boys in tuxedos and hats sit on the steps. Behind these four models appear…

Group Photo, Beta Delta Gamma Sorority, side 1
Outdoor group portrait of the Beta Delta Gamma Sorority, taken at the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, CA in 1934. Most Ventura Co.
girls.

Top Row: #5 Jeanetta Wolfe Thomas (Mrs. Mayo); #6 Marie Kyle Soares (Mrs. Frank); #7 0pal Ledbetter Habbick…

Pioneer Ladies, Ojai Valley
Group photo - Pioneer Ladies, Ojai Valley. Three ladies sit outdoors, identified as (l-r): Mrs. Fannie Ayers, Mrs. Emma Bullard, Mrs. Alice Fordyce, Mrs. Ida Mead, Mrs. Hattie Cota.

Pioneers of 1875 Meeting, Group Photo
Six women, unidentified, pose for a group portrait at a Pioneers of 1875 meeting in 1934. They appear to be outdoors, perhaps on a porch.

Abigail Adams Historical Figure
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams was known for her lively intelligence, for her wit and for her promotion of women’s rights. She read philosophy, poetry and politics. Abigail Adams was a great comfort to her husband as he shared his thoughts by…

Mercy Otis Warren Historical Figure
Mercy Otis Warren was known as the Conscience of the American Revolution. A lifelong revolutionary, she was the first woman to champion an anti-Federalist viewpoint. Warren used her talents as a writer to promote the Revolutionary cause with…

Dolley Madison Historical Figure
Raised as a Quaker, Dolly Paine left the sect to marry John Todd, was widowed, and then married James Madison in 1794. She was a gracious hostess at the White House for her husband and also President Jefferson. Legend credits Dolley Madison with…

Mexican Independence Day Float in Fillmore
Float decorated for Mexican Independence Day parade on September 16, 1935 in Filllmore, CA. Member of Círculo Nardo de Los Leñadores stand in front of the float wearing white ruffled dresses. A banner stands between them.

Ruth Sanchez, far left;…

Los Leñadores, Post Parade Group Photo
Five women pose for a group photo after a Mexican Independence Day. The women are members of Los Leñadores. They stand outdoors on a lawn and are all wearing long white dresses with corsages. Second from the right is Maria Sanchez.

Girls on Easter Sunday
Sanchez family girls and two friends pose for an outdoor full portrait in their Easter Sunday dresses, a couple of the girls are carrying Easter baskets. They are at the Sanchez family home at 326 Santa Clara Street in Fillmore. Girls identified as…

Young Women's Church Group, St. Francis of Assisi Parish
Outdoor group portrait of members of a young women's church group at St. Francis of Assisi Church. They young women pose with a priest in the middle of the group, and church in the background. All the women are dressed up in hats and dresses.

The…

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Full portrait of Clara and Maria (Mary) Sanchez standing outside in a garden or landscaped yard. The girls appear to be young teenagers. The girls are wearing dresses and stockings and are both posed with one arm around the other's waist and the…

Refugio "Ruth" Sanchez and Guadalupe Sanchez
Refugio "Ruth" Sanchez and Guadalupe Sanchez pose for an outdoor portrait. Ruth, in a dress and black Mary Jane shoes, stands next to Guadalupe, seated in a light colored dress and shoes. Both girls smile at the viewer.

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Soledad Ybarra and Jesus Muñoz
Outdoor portrait of Soledad Ybarra (standing) and Jesus Muñoz, daughter of Pascula Garnica. They are standing in front of a fenced garden. Soledad looks at the viewer and Jesus is turned to her right facing off to the left of the viewer. Both are…

Group Photo of Three Girls
Three girls pose for a group picture--two unidentified girls sit on the porch of a home and one girl, Mary Sanchez, sits on a swing. The girls to be of varying ages. All girls wear dresses and are looking at the viewer. In the background there are…

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Outdoor portrait of Maria (Mary) at about age 9 sitting in a chair next to her older sister, Refugio, who is standing with an arm on the back of Maria's chair. Both girls are wearing dresses and bows or ribbons in their hair. They face the viewer…

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Concha Guerrero and Maria Sanchez
Concha Guerrero (left) and Maria Sanchez stand alongside the Sanchez home on Santa Clara Street in Fillmore. They are standing next to the side of the house, Concha leaning into it. Both girls are wearing knee length dresses and looking at the…

Concha Guerrero and Juana Sandoval
Full portrait of two women, Concha Guerrero, left, and Juana Sandoval, standing outside. Concha is wearing a broad-brimmed floppy hat, dress, and pumps; Juana wears a cloche hat, dress, and pumps.

Portrait of Four Girls
Four girls in dresses and stockings pose for a full group portrait outdoors, outside of a wooden building. The girls are (l-r): Dominga Sanchez, Josie Guerrero, Martina Rivas, Maria Sanchez.

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Pansy Augusta Brewster, Age 21
Sepia toned full side view portrait of Pansy Augusta Brewster at approximately age 21. Pansy is sitting in a chair, holding two roses, and appears to be examining them. Pansy wears her hair in a Gibson Girl hairstyle and is wearing long gloves and a…

Two Girls on Swing Portrait
Sepia toned indoor studio photograph of two girls in lovely dresses sitting on a swing, facing the camera. They link arms and hold onto the ropes of the swing. Straw hats lay in the foreground on hay covered ground. Pansy Augusta Brewster is girl on…

Effie and Mabel Bartlett
Full portrait of Effie and Mabel Bartlett, two young girls, sitting in white dresses on hay or grass. They both gaze to the right of the camera. There is a backdrop of a beach and ocean scene behind them. The photograph is mounted on cardboard.…
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