Image of James M. Shrewsbury (1854-1919), brother of Mary F. Beach (1850-1930), standing in a garden next to the Beach adobe in Spadra, present-day Pomona, California. "He looks cross but he isn't, Mr. Shrewsbury."--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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