Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Birthday Feted by Centenarian. Ex-Engineer Host to Three Daughters on 100th Anniversary," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 1938: 4. The newspaper article describes Lovell as still being very active, and reported that in his career as a geologist and mining engineer has circled the globe three and a half times. Bessie Spohr lights a pipe for her father, Frederick Anthony Lovell, on his 100th birthday celebrated at his Tijunga Canyon cabin, with her sisters Mary Murray and Jean Philbin. The party also included two neighbors and a son-in-law. Handwritten on negative: L2R Bessie Spohr x Mary Murray x Fred Anthony Lovell x Jean Philbin 12/28/38 Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Bessie Spohr, left; Mrs. Mary Murray and Jean Philbin, right, coddle Fred Anthony Lovel on his 100th birthday. Text from negative sleeve: 15255. Fred Anthony Lovell Bessie Spohr Jean Philbin Mary Murray 100 yrs old 12-28-38 [stamped:] Dec 29 1938
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11996 ark:/21198/zz002h8vtc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Centenarians--California--Los Angeles Daughters--California--Los Angeles Birthdays--California--Los Angeles Families--California--Los Angeles Philbin, Jean, 1890-1967 Spohr, Bessie, 1887-1974 Lovell, Fred Anthony, 1838-1941 Murray, Mary, b. circa 1870
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