Contains portraits by Laura Adams Armer of family and community members, many of them well known. Included are: Sidney Armer; the Chabot family children; David Farguharson, architect; W.H. Beatty, chief justice of the California supreme court; two members of the Toklas family; Lewis F. Cockroft of the Oceanic Steamship Company; and Austin Lewis, the Socialist party candidate for governor of California in 1906. Includes many photos of artists and writers, such as Arthur Matthews, Anne Bremer, Boardman Robinson, and Royal Cortissoz. There are also portraits of photographers William Dassonville and Oscar Maurer, and sculptor Robert Aitken.