An intriguing group of twenty-three (23) stereoviews documenting the life and family of photographer A.J. Brown. Each bears a "Photo by Brown, Riverside, Cal." imprint to mount verso (except where noted). 

The group documents the domestic and professional life of photographer A.J. Brown who appears to have operated studios in Wyoming, Illinois and Riverside, California. The views include interiors of his home and studio while also featuring several California view in the Riverside vicinity, perhaps while his family was on vacation. The collection provides a rare glimpse into the working life of an early 20th-century photographer. 

1. [A.J. Brown on Sugar Loaf on Catalina.]

2. Outdoor view of a large balanced rock, with a distant valley visible in the background.

3. [A.J. Brown's Home View of Dining Room Wyoming, Ills.] 

4. [Grandpa & Grandma Brown.] Uncredited.   

5. [Camping Out at Lake Arrowhead, Calif.]

6. [A.J. Brown Family and Aunt Belle.] 

7. [White Family and Brown Family.] Uncredited. 

8. [Glen Oak Park Father Brown with Daughters Peoria, Illinois.]

9. [A.J. Brown's Home View of Living Room Wyoming, Ills.] Uncredited.

10. [White Park Riverside, Calif.] 

11. [Mrs. A.J. Brown, In Hall of Representatives Springfield, Illinois "Richard Yates for Governor of Illinois."] 

12. [Branch Gallery Toulon Ills. / Brown Branch Photo Studio Toulon, Ills. April 8, 1901.] Uncredited. Period inscription alongside later inscription to verso. 

13. [Lytle Creek.]

14. [Post Orchard Sultons home.] Period inscription. 

15. [Mother Mary Brown White Park Riverside, Calif.] Uncredited.

16. [Largest Pine tree in Southern Calif. at Strawberry Flats]. Period inscirption that also identifies the figures as Helen Brown, Kate Ansley, Sada Brown, Roy Sleipen

17. [Grandma Brown.] 

18. [A.J. Brown's Home View of Palor [sic] Wyoming, Ills.] Uncredited. 

19. [White Park Riverside, Calif. / Ruth Sassewill.] Period inscription identifies the subject.

20. [White Park Riverside, Calif.] 

21. [A.J. Brown family and Aunt Belle]. Period inscription. 

22. [Cactus Garden White Park - Riverside, Calif.] 

23. [White Park Riverside, Calif.] With period inscription that also identifies the figures as Aunt Belle, Helen, Mildred, Mamma, and Candace, and dates the image to "about 1916." 

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