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Title: Henry Guess turns 83, El Monte, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1936
1936-01
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.
Henry was born to John and Harriett Guess who came from Arkansas to California in a wagon train shortly before he was born on the Spanish grant of Don Filipe Lugo (the Lugo ranch).
Photograph appears with the article, "Guess Has Birthday," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan 1936: 8.
Text from negative sleeve: 3271 - Henry Guess 550 - 11 ST Pomona first white born in Los Angeles County 1- 16-36 [stamped:] Jan 21 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Henry Guess of El Monte, first white child born in Los Angeles county, who was 83 years of age yesterday.
Handwritten on negative: Henry Guess
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12167
ark:/21198/zz002h85h2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Staffs (Sticks)
Birthdays--California--El Monte
Older people--California--El Monte
Guess, Henry Thomas, 1853-1938
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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