Image of James M. Shrewsbury (1854-1919), brother of Mary F. Beach (1850-1930), sitting on a sofa on the porch of the adobe house of Mrs. Beach in Spadra, present-day Pomona, California, with a dog in the foreground. "Ease and comfort, Mr. Shrewsbury, home of Mrs. Beach, his sister."--text, handwritten on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Spadra was formerly part of Rancho San Jose. Mary F. Beach lived in Southern California for 70 years after coming across the country in a covered wagon in 1860 at the age of ten. James M. Shrewsbury was her brother.
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