Studio portrait of Manilla Owens as a young woman wearing an exotic costume composed of a white cotton peasant blouse, a satin bolero jacket, and a wide satin sash with a knife-pleated silk skirt, accessorized with a beaded necklace and floral hair ornament. Manila and Gladys Owens were the great-granddaughters of Biddy Mason and Robert Owens, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowner (daughters of Robert Curry Owens and Anna Dugged Owens). Written on back of photo: Manila L. Owens, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Curry Owens.
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