Visual Materials
Brockway family album
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- Description
- Bound photograph album with images depicting the family of Adna F. Brockway and Annie Brockway, their children, Leon Brockway and Elsie Brockway Snyder, and grandchildren, Dorothy and Marjorie. The album documents the family from the late 1880s to the early 1940s and includes scenes, residences, baby pictures, and family portraits, with detailed handwritten captions throughout. The album begins in 1886 with scenes and residences in Orleans, Vermont, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and proceeds to South Pasadena, California, where the family moved in 1887. Scenes in South Pasadena and surrounding areas include the Brockway residence at 306 N. Raymond Ave., including interior views, the Marengo Hotel in 1888 with "Vermonters celebrating Thanksgiving" gathered on the porch, a schoolhouse, the Arroyo Seco (including Scoville Dam), the San Gabriel Mountain camps, a trip to British Columbia, and scenes of life in Southern California at the beaches, the California Missions, floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and a dilapidated cabin identified as "A Mexican home." Many of the snapshots document family activities and outings including camping, riding bicycles, and visiting friends and neighbors. There are many excellent tintype and cartes-de-visite portraits of members of the Brockway and Garland families, dating from 1866, with descriptions of the sitter and date. Among the photographs there is a forty-year reunion photograph of women from the Pasadena High School class of 1897, a photograph by A.C. Vroman showing a group of amateur photographers crossing a stream in the Arroyo, ca. 1897, and Dorothy and Marjorie shown at Pomona College in the 1920s.
