Historical Portrait
Ruby Joe Chan, 001
Archive record
Ruby Joe Chan poses with parasol in this 1915 public-domain historical portrait photograph. Born 1909, later married Colonel Won-Loy Chan in 1945.
About this photograph
A six-year-old girl stands for the camera holding a parasol. The photograph comes from the Tulare County Library collection in California's San Joaquin Valley.
The record states she was born in 1909 and married Colonel Won-Loy Chan thirty years after this portrait was made. The photographer is not identified.
Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region dependent on irrigated agriculture that was settled heavily in the later nineteenth century. The county library holds a large local history photograph collection documenting ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than public figures.
The photograph reached the Internet Archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises material held by California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. Items carrying that source tag come from many separate local institutions across the state, so the tag indicates where a photograph was digitised rather than where it was taken.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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