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Caroline Sherer, Robert N. Taylor, and Mrs. John R. White at the Sherer farm, Glendale, 1935

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Title: Caroline Sherer, Robert N. Taylor, and Mrs. John R. White at the Sherer farm, Glendale, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 2, 1935
1935-09-02
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Caroline sits playing at an outdoor piano while Mr. Taylor and Mr. White watch.
150 senior citizens attended the picnic celebrating their status as being the first settlers of California. 83-year-old Caroline Sherer reminisces riding a horse to her job at a telegraph office in Los Angeles.
Photograph appears with the article, "Honor Paid To Pioneers," Los Angeles Times, 03 Sep 1935: 12.
Handwritten on negative: Robert Miller Mrs. John R. White Mr - Sherer -
Text from newspaper caption: Picture shows, left to right, Mrs. John R. White, Jr., Robert N. Taylor, Civil War veteran who fought under Gen. Sherman, and J. C. Sherer as they appeared yesterday at annual old settlers' picnic in Glendale.
Text from negative sleeve: 2051 - Left to right, Mr. Sherer, Robert N. Taylor, Mrs John R. White. Pioneers gathering on Sherer farm in Glendale 9 - 2 - 35 [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8434
ark:/21198/zz002dg9p1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pianos
Older people--California--Glendale
Picnics--California--Glendale
Veterans--American
Sherer, Caroline Shaw
Taylor, Robert
White, John Robert, Jr., b. 1870
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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