Willie Walker; Roy Hasting; __?__ Spalding; Bert Maxwell; Frankie __?__, Grasshopper, Lassen County, California

The next photo album belonging to Esther Durfee has now been scanned. By this time she was Esther Durfee Crews. Photos of many people, sadly no photos of Esther are located in the album. These photos cover the time frame from about 1919 to 1923.

It is believed that most of the photos were taken in Bieber, Lassen County, California. There are of course exceptions to this and they are noted when found.

Today’s photo is of Willie Walker; Roy Hasting; __?__ Spalding; Bert Maxwell; Frankie __?__. It was taken about 1921.

 Willie Walker

 Willie Walker and Kelley Crews [Is that not a magnificent horse?!] taken 1918.

"Samples boy" likely Albert Monroe Samples, Shasta County, California

The next photo album belonging to Esther Durfee has now been scanned. By this time she was Esther Durfee Crews. Photos of many people, sadly no photos of Esther are located in the album. These photos cover the time frame from about 1919 to 1923.

It is believed that most of the photos were taken in Bieber, Lassen County, California. There are of course exceptions to this and they are noted when found.

Today’s photo is likely Albert Monroe Samples. It was taken about June 1919.

 Man with back to camera, Kelley Crews; Samples boy; Ed Crews.

Bert Maxwell, Kelley Crews, Willie Walker, Marty Gerig, Charley Gerig, Grasshopper Ranch, Lassen County, California

The next photo album belonging to Esther Durfee has now been scanned. By this time she was Esther Durfee Crews. Photos of many people, sadly no photos of Esther are located in the album. These photos cover the time frame from about 1919 to 1923.

It is believed that most of the photos were taken in Bieber, Lassen County, California. There are of course exceptions to this and they are noted when found.

Today’s photos are of Bert Maxwell, Kelley Crews, Willie Walker, Marty Gerig, Charley Gerig. It was taken about June 1919. It was roundup time.

 1) Bert Maxwell; Kelley Crews (bent over); 2) Willie Walker; Marty Gerig (close to fence); 4) Charley Gerig

 Bert Maxwell and Kelley Crews

Marty Gerig & Bert Maxwell

Maude Fite, Bieber, Lassen County, California

The next photo album belonging to Esther Durfee has now been scanned. By this time she was Esther Durfee Crews. Photos of many people, sadly no photos of Esther are located in the album. These photos cover the time frame from about 1919 to 1923.

It is believed that most of the photos were taken in Bieber, Lassen County, California. There are of course exceptions to this and they are noted when found.

Today’s photos are of Maude Fite. They was taken about 1921-1923. 

 Maude & Kate Fite: Charley ? ; Kelley Crews

California death index show she died in Shasta County, California February 2, 1988.

Kelley Crews, Bieber, Lassen County, California

The next photo album belonging to Esther Durfee has now been scanned. By this time she was Esther Durfee Crews. Photos of many people, sadly no photos of Esther are located in the album. These photos cover the time frame from about 1919 to 1923.

It is believed that most of the photos were taken in Bieber, Lassen County, California. There are of course exceptions to this and they are noted when found.

Today’s photo is of John Henry "Kelley" Crews. They was taken about XXX.

Willie Walker and Kelley Crews

Kelley Crews and Walter Long

Roundup season! Maxwell, Swain, Gerig, Crews, Bieber, Lassen County, California

My grandmother, Esther Durfee, was a budding photographer while living as a young woman with her parents in Bieber, Lassen County, California. Her father, Thomas Jefferson Durfee was the postmaster there over many years. When young Esther got her first camera she seemed to have made it her mission to photograph every person within the community, or so it seemed! The first photo album has had all the people who were identified in it, scanned.

Today I would like to introduce you to Maxwell, Swain, Gerig, Crews. Photo taken about 1918 (could have been as late as 1920).

Left to right: B. Maxwell; Swain [William perhaps?]; C. Gerig; Kelly Crews

John Henry "Kelly" Crews, Bieber, Lassen County, California, ca 1917

My grandmother, Esther Durfee, was a budding photographer while living as a young woman with her parents in Bieber, Lassen County, California. Her father, Thomas Jefferson Durfee was the postmaster there over many years. When young Esther got her first camera she seemed to have made it her mission to photograph every person within the community, or so it seemed! The first photo album has had all the people who were identified in it, scanned.

Today I would like to introduce you to John Henry "Kelly" Crews. Kelly was Esther's first husband. Photos taken about 1917 (could have been 1918).

 

Kelly Crews, far right