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Description
Photographic portrait of Maria Engracia y Reyes de Vejar [identified as Altagracia Vejar y Reyes de Delano in other sources], [after 1877?]. An elderly woman in a shawl and dress of the same material sits on a chair and stares into the foreground. She wears a broach and lace around her neck, and wears her hair back in a braid. Photograph taken by Ellis & Son, 44 New High Street and 55 Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA. ❧ She married Juan Crisostomo Vejar, at Mission San Gabriel, 1838 February 19. Vejar developed the Vejar Station stagecoach stop with Thomas Delano. Delano married Juan and Maria Engracia’s daughter Soledad Vejar.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 18 x 13 cm. photographic prints photographs
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