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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the accompanying negative sleeve, this image was taken around 1897. Aileen (Brain) Davis was born around 1898 or 1899, after when this image was stated to be taken. This image is likely to have been taken at a later date. Photograph, from left to right, of Bob Brain and Aileen Brain sitting on a sofa in their home in Santa Monica. They sit, left-of-center, on the left side of the sofa. Aileen sits on Bob's lap and looks to the camera. Bob holds Aileen on his lap as he too looks to the camera. Newspapers lie flat on the right side of the sofa. Walls at center and right are covered in pictures and other hanging decor. A wide, open doorway is at left through which another room is visible. Text from negative sleeve: 1234. Santa Monica, Calif. About 1897. Bob Brain, who worked in the Superintendent Office S.P.R.R. with me. He was time keeper for the Maintenance of Way Department. Lived in a little cottage on the beach at Santa Monica that he rented from S.P. for a small amount per year. S.P. only wanted to keep title to the land. Bob asked me to come down and go duck hunting with him near Ballona Slough. (Now called Playa Del Rey.) We went down in the evening - Saturday - and hunted next morning. Not much luck. I killed a loon in the water under the Old Ballona pier. We saw Al Jamieson, who was S.P. agent at Port Los Angeles, across the lagoon in a little duck shooters shack, but he gave us no ducks. 1. Bob Brain and his daughter Aileen Brain Now dead (1943) and Bob tells me that her daughter is a married woman. 1 film
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1234_001 ark:/21198/zz002hsqt5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dwellings--California--Santa Monica Brain, Robert T., 1869-1946 Davis, Aileen W. Brain, b. 1898 or 1899
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