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Title
Ripley Nicholas Baylies celebrating his 90th birthday with daughter Mrs. Harriet Tilden at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
September 5, 1935
1935-09-05
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.
View of Ripley Nicholas Baylies, seated in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, presents on lap, cigar in left hand, his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Tilden, seated behind him, in blouse, dress, with arms around her father. Baylies, a former Iowa Circuit Court judge, attributes his long life to eating whatever he wants and living mostly outdoors.
This photograph appears with the article, "Ninety Years Earns Jubilee: Birth Anniversary Kept By Nonagenarian Jurist," Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Averill Tilden, Judge Ripley Nicholas Baylies
Text from newspaper caption: Ripley Nicholas Baylies, former Iowa Circuit Court judge, celebrates ninetieth birth anniversary at Hollywood Hotel with daughter, Mrs. Averrill Tilden. Note presents and the judge's cigar.
Text from negative sleeve: 2163, Mrs. Averill Tilden, Judge Ripley Nicholas Baylies - 90, Judge, 9/8/35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8562
ark:/21198/zz002dgg3n
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Tilden, Harriet Helen, 1892-1954
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baylies, Ripley Nicholas, 1845-1937
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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