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Mary and Manuel Maria standing in garden, Bear Valley, Calif., circa 1920; Mary wearing calico side-buttoned dress, and Manuel wearing dark suit with vest; both natives of Azores, Portugal.

Distant view of the settlement of Mormon Bar, first mined in 1849 by members of the Mormon Battalion; two miles south of Mariposa, Calif. on old stage route to Wawona and Yosemite.

Margaretha Evert, later known as Mother Carter, on her 16th birthday in Lancaster, Calif., holding her birthday present, a large doll; born in Luxembourg in 1884, she came to America in 1888.

Front and side view of the two-story Mount Bullion Hotel in Mount Bullion, Calif.; with four horses and riders in the street.

Front and side view of the roofless stone jail on hill above town, Bear Valley, Calif., 1992; built of local schist slabs, circa 1850.

Back and side view of old Bear Valley schoolhouse on hill above town, Bear Valley, Calif., 1992; school closed circa 1952.

Front and side view of the two-story Oso House hotel, 1879, Bear Valley, Calif.; with people standing and seated on porches, and a horse and wagon in street.

Brother and sister Pete and Pearl Carter wearing bathing suits, standing in meadow near Carter Road, Mariposa, Calif., 1924.

Eight students and a teacher standing beside Quartzburg School, near Hornitos, Calif., circa 1925-1926; left to right back row, Winfred Williams, Eugene Patterson, Robert Davis, Nora M. Sawyer (teacher), Geneva Speaker, Minnie Speaker; left to right…

Queen of Mariposa and others on decorated platform in front of hotel on Main Street, during '49 Fiesta celebration, Mariposa, Calif., circa 1931; left to right, Pearl Carter, unidentified girl, Kay Dexter, Abbott Otto, and Dorothy Apperson, seated.