Image / Manila Owens (or possibly Gladys Owens) as a young woman, circa 1920

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Title: Manila Owens (or possibly Gladys Owens) as a young woman, circa 1920
Alternative Title: Gladys Owens Smith and Manila Owens (daughters of Robert Curry Owens)
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1920]
1920
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Manila and Gladys Owens were the great-granddaughters of Biddy Mason and Robert Owens, early African American pioneers and Los Angeles landowners (daughters of Robert Curry Owens and Anna Dugged Owens).
Studio portrait of Manilla Owens as a young woman wearing a fur cape and a wide-brimmed hat (or possibly her sister, Gladys).
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b02_f04_009.tif
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Subject: Smith, Gladys Mason Owens, 1895-1995
Owens, Manilla Louise, 1898-1930
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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