Image / Eliza Davis at her cabin, Sonora (California), circa 1870-1890

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Title: Eliza Davis at her cabin, Sonora (California), circa 1870-1890
Alternative Title: Eliza Davis, pioneer woman
Contributor: Early California, 1781-1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1870/1890
[circa 1870-1890]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Eliza Davis is known through the writings of Ora Moss Morgan, a resident of Sonora. Davis was freed from slavery in an 1854 deed of manumission, kept in the Tuolumne County Recorder's office.
Old Aunt Eliza Davis -- negro. Nearly 100 years old when she died in Sonora. This is her red cabin at Sonora.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b04_f17_001.tif
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Subject: African American pioneers
Davis, Eliza, b. 1827
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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