Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Don Francisco Garcia of Los Angeles, the Mexican courier between the U.S. and the City of Mexico, at 115 years of age, ca.1890. He can be seen from the waist up sitting facing to the left. He has a beard and mustache. He is wearing a hat with braiding around the crown and a pin(?) on the left side, and a three-piece suit with a cravat-type tie. A watch fob hangs from the third button down on his vest. He died at age 117.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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