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Margaret Miller, age 96, resident of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Home, Eagle Rock, 1938

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Title: Margaret Miller, age 96, resident of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Home, Eagle Rock, 1938
Contributor: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1938
1938-12
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Retired Women Find Peace In Eagle Rock W.C.T.U. Home," Los Angeles Times, 02 Jan 1939: A3.
Margaret sits in a chair by the window with her knitting materials in a basket in her lap. Behind her some of her personal belongings can be seen, such as a framed picture and several books.
96-year-old Margaret is a native of Pittsburgh and the oldest resident of W.C.T.U. who enjoys flowers and knitting.
Text from negative sleeve: 15244 - Lois Hoyt 94 Esther Hoyt 91 Margaret Miller 96 Mrs Emma Eaton 90 Mrs Sarah J Barber 91 Mrs Anna Bevans 90 Mrs Wm Roberts 91 y Mrs Chlorine Wylie 95 WTCU oldsters 12-29-38 TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT
Handwritten on negative: Miss Margaret Miller 96 12- 27-38
Text from newspaper caption: Miss Margaret Miller, 96, oldest in home.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11985
ark:/21198/zz002h8vfp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Older people--California--Eagle Rock
Knitting--California--Eagle Rock
Retirement communities--California--Eagle Rock
Miller, Margaret, b. 1843 or 44
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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