Bowers Home
ClassificationsPhotographs
Date1925
Place DepictedSanta Ana, California, United States, North America
MediumPhotographic print on paper
Dimensions4 1/2 × 3 in. (11.4 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Judith M. Castagno
Object number2007.7.5
DescriptionPhoto of the Bowers home in Santa Ana with sisters Ada Bowers and Helen Abbott Reed standing in front, 1925. The photo is taken from across the street, with large trees, the street, and a little girl identified as Eugenia H. Reed in the foreground. The inscriptions written on this photograph are by Florence Fisher Reed, granddaughter of Helen Abbott Reed. Eugenia Reed, who would have been about 5 years old when this photo was taken, was the niece of Florence Fisher Reed and great-granddaughter of Helen Reed.On front: Aunt Ada Bowers home in / Santa Ana, Cal. / Summer - 1925. Written on the reverse: Summer of 1925 / The home of Mr. & / Mrs. C.W. Bowers / 2010 N. Main - / Santa Ana, California. / From left to right - / Aunt Ada Bowers / and / her sister, / Helen Abbott Reed / our grandmother - / who was visiting / her. / Their palm trees are / said to be the / biggest in California. / Eugenia Reed in the / foreground - who was / visiting there.
Upon their death, Charles and Ada Bowers left their home and the land it sat upon to the City of Santa Ana under the express condition that the land be used to build a museum. Thus, Bowers Museum was built in the name of its founders.
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c. 1925
July 4, 1918
c. 1920
Early 20th Century
Early 20th Century
Early 20th Century
c. 1927