Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Portrait of Petra and Francisco Rangel, married for 67 years and oldest residents of San Gabriel. They are seated outside of their home (227 S. Mission Dr.), Francisco in a wicker chair. Petra wears a long floral dress, shawl with floral embroidery and hair comb. Francisco wears striped trousers and a wool jacket and holds a cane. They were married at the San Gabriel Mission in 1868. Petra's grandmother, Eulalia Guillen (1768-1878), was the keeper of the keys, mayordoma, of the Mission church in the 1820's. Text from newspaper caption: Dona Petra Rangel, 84 years of age, left, and Don Francisco Rangel, 94, San Gabriel's oldest residents, who will celebrate their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary during the fiesta September 7, 8, and 9. Photograph published with the article, "Bull-Bear Fights Recalled: San Gabriel's Oldest Pair to Join in Fiesta," Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep 1935: 18. Text from negative sleeve: 3065. Dona Petra Rangel, left, Don Francisco Rangel, right, of San Gabriel. Oldest residents. 11-30-35. [Stamped:] Dec 11 1935. Handwritten on negative: Dona Petra Rangel
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10854 ark:/21198/zz002h9zqq
Subject
Wedding anniversaries--California--San Gabriel Rangel, Francisco, 1841-1936 Rangel, Petra Silva, 1850-1946
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