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Dr. Joseph P. Widney, still learning at the age of 94, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Dr. Joseph P. Widney, still learning at the age of 94, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 19, 1936
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, “WILL THE aged RULE AMERICA?,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1936: H3.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Joseph P. Widney
Text from negative sleeve: 6627—Dr Joseph P Widney (former USC Pres.), [Stamped:] SEP 1936.
Text from newspaper caption: Dr. Joseph P. Widney, 94 years of age, who on top of a full life developed marked musical talent after his 70th birthday and who has written several books following his 80th birthday and is still active. Under an old age pension plan he would have been retired, living on the labor of others, for the past thirty-four years.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14521
ark:/21198/zz002j848c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gaslight fixtures
College administrators
Scholars
Books
Hand lenses
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 1841-1938
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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