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Title: 100th birthday, 1959
Creator: Rustan
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959-02-22
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: 2 images. 100th birthday, 22 February 1959. Joseph I. Messenger -- 100 years old
Wylie Messenger (nephew)
Mrs. Edna Guptill (niece).
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Rustan. Date: 1959-02-22. Reporter: MacMillin. Assignment: 100th birthday. 95-96: Joseph I. Messenger, 100, sweeps patio (as he does every morning) at So. San Gabriel rest home where he lives. 5-6: Joseph Messenger (center) cuts 100th birthday party cake as nephew Wylie Messenger and niece Mrs. Edna Guptill, of Portland, look on."
Type: image
Format: 2 photographs : negatives, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
image/tiff
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: EXM-N-12510-019~1...~2
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m25157
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-12510-019~1.jpg
Language: English
Subject: Centenarians
Time Period: 1959-02-22
Source: 12510-019 [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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