Family:Ansel Adams and Virginia Best (1)

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Marriage[1][4] 1928 Mariposa, California, United States
Residence[2][3] From 1930 to 1935 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United StatesLiving at 121 24th Street.
Census[2] 1940 Yosemite Valley, Mariposa, California, United StatesIn Yosemite National Park
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Wife: Virginia Best
Husband: Ansel E. Adams
Year: 1/2 1928
Volume: 7
Page: 85

1930 Census; San Francisco, California

The family was living in an owned home valued at $15,000. All members of the household were white. Husband and wife were married two years earlier.

(Head) Ansel E. Adams, 28 year old male photographer born in California.  His father was born in California, his mother in Iowa.
(Wife) Virginia B. (Adams), 26 year old female vocal musician born in California.  Her father was born in Canada (an Englishman), her mother born in Pennsylvania.

1940 Census; Mariposa, California

The family was living in an owned home worth $3000. All members of the household were white.

(Head) Ansel Adams, 38 year old male self-employed photographer born in California.  He had a 4-year college education.  
(Wife) Virginia (Adams), 36 year old female self-employed art studio manager born in California.  She had a 4-year high school education.
(Son) Michael (Adams), 6 year old schoolboy born in California.
(Daughter) Anne (Adams), 5 year old schoolgirl born in California.
References
  1. Ansel Adams Biography, in The Ansel Adams Gallery.

    "He met his wife, Virginia Best, in Yosemite; they were married in 1928. The couple had two children."

    By William Turnage. This biography has been published by Oxford University Press for its American National Biography and is reprinted courtesy OUP and the author.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Judicial Township 6, El Portal, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, in Mariposa, California, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    household 58, sheet 62B rows 78-80 and sheet 63A row 1, 6 Apr 1940.

    "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89MT-8FFX?cc=2000219&wc=QZXP-TTY%3A790105301%2C802978901%2C793356401%2C802982702 : accessed 21 August 2022), California > Mariposa > Judicial Township 6 > 22-12 Judicial Township 6, Yosemite National Park (part), Lewis Memorial Hospital, Yosemite > image 12 of 32; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.

  3. San Francisco City, Block 25, in San Francisco, California, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Page 4B, 131 24th Avenue, dwelling/household 60/62; rows 84-85., 4 Apr 1930.

    "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR4Z-V9R?cc=1810731&wc=QZF9-JZY%3A648807101%2C651480501%2C651480502%2C1589282870 : 8 December 2015), California > San Francisco > San Francisco (Districts 1-250) > ED 247 > image 9 of 33; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002).

  4. Best, Virginia, in California, United States. California, County Marriages, 1850-1952: Database with images. (FamilySearch.org)
    004540631, Female Index to Marriages—Mariposa County, California, Pg. 6.

    "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-BJ97-GC?cc=1804002&wc=96PF-W36%3A1069596301 : 12 May 2014), 004540631 > image 108 of 1143; multiple county courthouses, California.