Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947. Group portrait of young women on the front porch of a house located at 124 East 4th St. Emma P. Barrett Boyd is on the right in a white dress with a dark bow tie and hat. Three other women wear dark skirts and white blouses with dark bow ties and hats. The women in the center wears a dark skirt and print blouse. Written on the back of the original photograph: Compliment of Reverne Vessell
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African American women Boyd, Emma P. Barrett, 1874-1970
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