Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Josefa L. Serna Papers, donated by her family after her death, consists of 2,100 family photographs dating from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, family papers, religious objects including rosaries and Christ figures, and textiles including a wedding dress, baby clothes, and other handmade items. The photographs complement these types of collections by documenting five generations of an identifiable working-class family in East Los Angeles, many...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Josefa L. Serna Papers, donated by her family after her death, consists of 2,100 family photographs dating from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, family papers, religious objects including rosaries and Christ figures, and textiles including a wedding dress, baby clothes, and other handmade items. The photographs complement these types of collections by documenting five generations of an identifiable working-class family in East Los Angeles, many...