Profile studio portrait of Manilla Owens as a young woman (or possibly her sister, Gladys). 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).
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