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Unidentified portraits, taken by Los Angeles photographers

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A collection of photographs and documents dating from 1859 to 1917, related to the Avila and Fraters families, their friends, and other Californio families of Los Angeles. The photographs are mostly studio portraits of individuals and family groups dating from the 1860s to the1890s. The collection belonged to Joseph August Fraters (1873-1936) and Petra Avila Fraters (1873-1951), and includes their wedding portrait (1898), portraits of Petra, their children Joaquin and Ysabel, and their house in Los Angeles. There are also three framed photographs of Petra and her parents Felipe Avila (1832-1900) and Prudenciana Ruiz de Avila, and four tintypes. Other people who appear in photographs are: Ernest (Anastacio) Avila; Francisca Avila; Francisco Avila; Hernaldo Avila with his wife Maud C. Gorham (born in Iowa) and four children; Lugarda and Elizabeth Avila (sisters); Luisa Avila; Tomas Avila; Susana Machado Bernard (1839-1907), with five children; T.J. Cordoza; Ernest Gibelin Du Py; Maria Elena Hurlbert; Felipe Lugo; Petra Lugo (Vignes); Serafina Macias; Sacramenta Moulton (daughter of Elijah T. Moulton); Christina Palomares; Concepcion Palomares; Francisca "Pancha" Sepulveda; Ruperto Serrano; and Hortense Yorba. There are several unidentified portraits of men, women and children. Other materials in the collection include Petra Avila's scrapbook autograph album, 1889 to 1896, which has handwritten notes, poems, and drawings by family and friends, with color decals of love sentiments attached to some pages. The signers added their Los Angeles neighborhoods after their names: Compton, Vernon, Florence, Green Meadows and Tajuata. There are also approximately 40 family documents and 14 programs for minstrel shows and concerts organized and performed by San Quentin Prison inmates, 1900 to 1903.
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Production date
1859-1917.
Call number
photCL 355
Provenance
Gift of Joaquin Fraters, September 19, 1968. Transferred from the Ephemera Department in March 1992.
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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