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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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I kept meaning to get back to this.
I assume that is Llewellyn Bixby, Jr., 1879-1942 (
MR already pointed out that the lad is standing on the Bixby home's front lawn), also assuming the photo was taken in the early 1890s when the boy was 13 or so. The photo may be to commemorate his first day of high school.
The photographer's shadow on the grass gives a hint of upswept hair and leg-o-mutton sleeves, so may be one of the boy's sisters, Sarah (1871-1935) or Anne (1874-1967). Could also be their Aunt Martha, who came to look after the kids when their mom died in 1882.
Bixby Lewellyn, Jr., as an adult, restored the extended-family's
Rancho Los Cerritos adobe (Long Beach), which, originally built by John Temple in 1844, had fallen into disrepair after being leased out for decades. His son, also Llewellyn, eventually oversaw it's transfer to state ownership. It opened as a public museum in 1955.
Too bad the Bixby's Hill Street home wasn't saved too, but one can't have everything. Here in 1928, long after it had become multi-family and street widening had eaten away much of the front yard. It fell in 1954:
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Originally Posted by tovangar2
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(second photo via
FW):