Old mother, Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

15 photographs of an older woman portraying various activities: smiling, talking on a telephone, looking out a window, and falling asleep while reading a magazine, probably in Los Angeles, California, 1939. "Client: Whittington; Classifications: N. Women; operator's report - name: Herb" - on envelope. The negative envelope indicates that the Whittington studio fulfilled 9 print orders and sold reproduction rights 13 times.