Historical Portrait
Shades of South San Francisco - Family Portrait
Archive record
Historic Dezordo family portrait from South San Francisco, California, circa 1924. Public-domain photograph showing nine family members posed together.
About this photograph
The record gives no details about the Dezordo family beyond the surname and the South San Francisco location. Nine people posed for the camera around 1924, date uncertain, photographer unknown.
The photograph reached this archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises holdings from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies and places them online. The tag indicates where the item was digitised rather than where it was made.
The year matters for timing. Between roughly 1880 and 1920 some twenty million people reached the United States, most from southern and eastern Europe. Studio portraits marked both ends of that crossing: made at home to leave with relatives, or made after arrival and sent back as proof of safe landing and employment. By 1924 the great wave had ended, but families who had come through it were settling, marrying, having children born in California.
The record places them in South San Francisco but says nothing about what brought them there, what work they did, or how long they had been in the state. The surname and the date are all that remain fixed.
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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