Mary Anna Colton quietly celebrates the Jayhawkers anniversary, Norwalk, 1936

Title: Mary Anna Colton quietly celebrates the Jayhawkers anniversary, Norwalk, 1936
Date Created: March-May 1936
Date: 1936-03-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Caption: 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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14238
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