Another for my Labor Day photo series… My great grandfather was Charles Mazeres . Charles was from Ogeu les bains, France. He made his way to San Francisco in the early 1890s. He and my grandmother, Brigitte Breilh, owned French Laundries. The earliest laundry I’ve documented is the one he owned in Modesto, California, 1903. …
Category: photographs
Westinghouse Electric 1938
I have one of those long photographs rolled up for far too many years. This is a portion of it: The photo is of the employees of Westinghouse Electric Mfg., Porcelain Division, Emeryville, Alameda Co., CA. It was taken on 1 Dec 1938. My grandfather and his cousin are in this photograph. My grandfather, Joao…
Women Working in the Factories
Here’s another entry for my Labor Day photo series. I found this photograph in the Oakland Tribune [Oakland, Alameda Co., CA], 15 May 1942, Front Page. The article was titled “Women Now in War Plant in Emeryville.” The article documented local women who were moving into manufacturing jobs as men headed off to war. This…
Laborers at the Sugar Plantation
As it is Labor Day weekend, I thought I’d post the one photograph I have that links my relatives to their sugar plantation laboring roots. This photograph is in my cousin Ted’s collection. It was taken on one of the sugar beet farms in Monterey County, CA. It’s most likely King City, Soledad, or Spreckels. …
It was there all along
I am often reminded of one important rule of genealogy: go back over what you’ve found periodically because you never know when it will click. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone over research or looked at a photo that I’ve seen 20, 30 times without recognition. Then, the 31st time the light bulb…