Gladys Owens was the great-granddaughter of Biddy Mason and Robert Owens, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners (daughter of Robert Curry Owens and Anna Dugged Owens). Studio portrait of Gladys Owens as a young woman wearing a white blouse with a brooch and necklace.
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