US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Anniversary of Tragic Jayhawk Trip Marked," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar 1936: 7. Mrs. Colton smiles at the camera, sitting at her writing desk composing a letter. Mrs. Colton quietly celebrated the 78th anniversary of the date that the Jayhawkers left Galesburg, Illinois, to find fortune in California. Text from negative sleeve: 5181 - Mrs. Mary Anna Colton wife of John B Colton -named Death Valley -became Pres. of Southern Pacific RR (Jay hawker mother) 3/30/36 [stamped:] May 12 1936 Text from newspaper caption: "The last reunion of the Jayhawkers has been held as far as I'm concerned," said Mrs. Mary Anna Colton as she closed the shutters on her pioneering past and turned her active mind toward the future. Handwritten on negative: 3/30/36 Mrs Mary Anna Colton
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14238 ark:/21198/zz002j7shq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Widows Desks Older people--California--Norwalk Colton, Mary Anna, 1849-1940 Jayhawker Party
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