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Title: Vesta Ransom Fay, 105th birthday
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Martin, Bob
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Vesta Ransom Fay, born November 22, 1859 in Suez, Ill., moved to Burbank in 1937 to live with her son Donald. She previously had been living in Sanford, Fla. with her husband, Dr. Joseph Fay, until his death in 1924.
Photograph dated November 23, 1964 reads, "Big Day -- Mrs. Fay Vista [sic] [Vesta Ransom Fay] gets a kiss from Abraham Zaro, on her 105th birthday which she celebrated yesterday. "I've waited a long time for someone to do that," she said, as the director of the Laurel Canyon Convalescent Home, 7541 Laurel Canyon Blvd., where she lives, gave her the kiss."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085810
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f36_i6
CARL0004775579
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43081
Subject: Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Centenarians--California--Los Angeles
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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