CDV Photo by Wilbur's Enameled Cards Gallery located in Marysville Yuba County California since about 1866.

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Marysville Yuba County California, W.T. Ellis

cdv photograph, Great condition

1869 Marysville California Nisenan Indian Slave Name Rose Bought By W.T Ellis Nursemaid CDV Photo by Wilburs Enameled Cards Gallery located in Marysville Yuba County California since about 1866. Accompany this lot A CDV photo of W.T. Ellis Senior . 1870 W.T. Ellis signed Yuba County interest coupon, and 1881 manuscript receipt Wheat Barge to San Francisco from Marysville via the Sacramento river. This photo was removed from W.T. Ellis Estate photo album and same image published in W.T. Ellis Jr. book page 8. I.D. in Book The Authors Oldest sister, Marian with Indian Girl , Nursemaid Rose Picture taken about 1869. The Provenance or reference printed in Book title Memories My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba California by W.T. Ellis - Printed by John Henry Nash 1939. From 1866 to 1879 ,Ellis family were assisted by this Nisenan girl named Rose , who had be stolen from her parents by two gold miners who intended to force her to serve as a nursemaid for the children of one of them. Instead the miners ended up losing all their gold dust to gambling, and sold Rose to W.T. Ellis Senior for 500 dollars in an attempt to recoup their profits. Rose was forced to live with and work for the Ellis family until she died of tuberculosis, 13 years after she had been purchased. Nisenan Indians - also known as the Valley Maidu or Southern Maidu lived in most of Yuba and Sutter Counties and The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range to the East of Sacramento River. A confirmed California Native American Slave.