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Title: 100-year-old birthday, 1953
Creator: Emery
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953-09-13
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: 4 images. 100-year-old birthday, 13 September 1953. Mrs. Mary Hoover Pratt -- 100 years old
Miss Barbara Hall -- 21 years (great granddaughter).
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: emery. Date: 1953-09-13. Reporter: Emery to RW. Assignment: 100-yr.-old birthday. 22-23-49-48: Blowing out that 100th candle: Mrs. Mary Hoover Pratt, 100 years old, celebrating birthday at home, 1025 Gaviota Ave., Long Beach. 44: Kindly 100-yr.-old (left) and her great granddaughter Miss Barbara Hall, 21, of 809 Glenmont Ave., LA, exchange toast: grandma's 100th birthday, Barbara's wedding coming up 8 pm Friday, 18th at Wilshire Methodist Ch., LA."
Type: image
Format: 4 photographs : negatives, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
image/tiff
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m
EXM-N-10004-002~1...~4
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m24874
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-10004-002~1.jpg
Language: English
Subject: Birthdays
Centenarians
Time Period: 1953-09-13
Place: 1025 Gaviota Avenue
33.779522,-118.17122
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 10004-002 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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