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Description
Very little is known about the early life of Anna V. Stokes McCall. Her name first appears in the 1926 San Jose City Directory at 386 N. 12th Street where she lived with her husband, John B. McCall. This address is also recorded as her residence at the time of her death. McCall was a charter member of the Garden City Women's Club, organized sometime between 1906 and 1908, a charter member of the Santa Clara County Branch of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a member of the Naomi Chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern Star, located in San Francisco. McCall's death was acknowledged in a Garden City Women's Club Resolution dated February 1, 1949, that stated "the Garden City Women's Club has suffered unrepairable loss and shall miss her unselfish service, her loyalty, her smiling personality, her ever readiness to give consolation to those in sorrow, aid to those in distress and commendation to the deserving." In 1955 the Garden City Women's Club established a scholarship in her honor. McCall is shown in full portrait. Her dress is typical of an earlier decade. The sleeves are long and narrow, the skirt is slender with a slight train in the back and the waist shows signs of a rising waistline. Bows at the waist and bustline accent the front. Wrist-length gloves complete her attire. (Description taken from "Pioneer Women of Santa Clara County: Selections From The Permanent Collection," by Helen Kuesel and Milita Rios-Samaniego, San Jose Historical Museum, 1991)
Type
image
Format
Black & White|Enhanced
Identifier
619FC080-D693-4F49-B868-429407904677 1989-82-6
Subject
African American women (LCSH) African Americans--California Portrait photographs Pioneers--California (LCSH) McCall, Anna Virgil Stokes
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