Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) standing in front of the family house on Fontaine Road in 1950 with her parents and brothers. Pictured from the left in the front row: Nancy and her brother Jon; with her mother Harriet, father John, and brother...
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) posing on the stoop of her family's Robinson Road rental with brother David standing in the crib behind in 1949. The rustic cabin was reputed to be the hunting lodge for Teddy Roosevelt.
Harriet and John Swenson, parents of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor), bought the house on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1950 where the family lived for over 50 years, originally leasing it for a year because the owner John Aerick, who built the...
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) with her parents, Harriet and John Swenson, standing in front of her grandmother's family home in Paxton, Illinois in 1943.
Husband and wife--California--Topanga; Piano teachers--California--Topanga;
John and Harriet Swenson, parents of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor), on family property on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1951. John worked in aircraft business. Harriet studied piano and gave piano lessons to the local children.
Leaning outhouse off a cliff of the two-bedroom cabin that the family of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) lived for a year on Robinson Road in Topanga in 1949. The outhouse was on the edge of what is now the Topanga State Park.
David Swenson (left), brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) with cousin Mark Herranen and family goat Dolly at the family home on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1952.
Barn owl raised by Jon Swenson, brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor). Picture was taken at family property on Fontaine Road in Topanga circa 1960.
Father and child--California--Topanga; Brothers and sisters--California--Topanga; Oak--California--Topanga;
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) sitting on a fallen oak tree with her father and three brothers on Fontaine Road in Topanga circa 1960. Pictured from the left: David, Willy, Nancy, John (father), and Jon. The family called the fallen oak tree...
Jon Swenson, brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor), standing in the yard of the family house on Fontaine Road in Topanga on his third birthday in 1950.
Pictured in 1998, the house at 154-156 South Topanga Blvd. was originally developed by druggist Henry L. Wilson and his wife Louise Stinetorf, a successful novelist. Her novel, The White Witch Doctor, was made into a film starring Susan Hayward and...
Baby Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) sitting on the laps of her great-grantmother Prestine with her mother Harriet Swenson (right) and grandmother Lillian Hill standing in the garden of their house in Kankakee, Illinois, circa 1942.
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) and her father John and mother Harriet Swenson sitting on the steps of the house in Kankakee, Illinois, before moving to California circa 1943.
Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) sitting in front of the cabin rented by the Swenson family for a year on Robinson Road in 1949 when they first moved to Topanga before moving to the home on Fontaine Road in Topanga.
Children of Anderson, Haeggquist, Needham, Spiese, Rosenquist, Hoffman and Zack families at the birthday party of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) in 1952 at the front yard of the Swenson family house on Fontaine Road in Topanga. Sitting on the...
