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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated December 15, 1956 reads, "Mrs. Florence Baker Foxe, 91-year-old resident of Valmont Rest Home in Tujunga, displays parts of her button collection started in 1876. Mrs. Foxe, former seamstress, has thousands of buttons made of bone, brass, plastic and shells from all over the world."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Buttons--California--Los Angeles Buttons--Private collections--California--Los Angeles Buttons--Collectors and collecting--California--Los Angeles Older people--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Rest homes--California--Los Angeles Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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