A. Photos

The series contains photographs (color and black and white), scrapbooks, and slides collected by Helen and M. Norvel Young throughout their life. A large portion of the photographs are family photographs ranging from the early 1900s to the early 1960s. While most of the family photographs were collected by Helen, one box of photos was originally from a box labeled as being from Anne Beattie Smith and Franklin Young (Norvel's sister-in-law and his brother). The photos in the collection are of both Helen and Norvel's extended families and their close friends -- some are labeled and others are unlabeled -- and range in size from tiny cutouts of photographs to formal portraits approximately 8 by 10 inches in size.

Other photographs, scrapbooks and slides come from trips abroad over the decades (including Asia, Iran, and others). The majority of the rest of the photographs are from Pepperdine University events and other Los Angeles-area events from approximately the 1950s to the early 2000s.