Back L-R: Bauman, Matilda (Mrs. Ira); Musselman, Mary (Litwiller); Shantz, Laura (Mrs. Tobias); Bearinger, Mabel (Eby); Snider, Ida (Stauffer); Snider, Maria (Shantz); Snider, Emma (Mrs. Edwin); Front: Shantz, Lucena; S
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "This picture caused quite a stir. Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey, and Laura Shantz in California. (circa 1908)." A Mennonite bishop at home in Waterloo region wanted the women to apologize for wearing fashionable hats instead of Mennonite bonnets while on their trip to California to work as maids. In the photograph, two of the women are standing, while one sits on the back of an ostrich. Left to right: Laura Shantz, Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey.
Left to right: Laura Shantz, Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey. Picture taken on their day off while working for a year as domestics for the wealthy Wiggins family in Ocean Park, California.
Noah S. & Susannah Shantz family. Seated: Noah S. Shantz, Susannah Shantz; Standing (L-R): Marian Shantz Steiner, Lincoln C. Shantz, Laura Shantz, Stauffer C. Shantz, Walter C. Shantz
