Mrs. Valerie Smythe at 92nd birthday celebration, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. Valerie Smythe at 92nd birthday celebration, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

Aug 12, 1935

Date

1935-08-12

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph published with article: "Children Attend Great-Grandma's Birthday Party," Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 1935: A7
Mrs. Valerie Smythe of Los Angeles celebrates her 92nd birthday party at a reception thrown by her descendents. Mrs. Smythe emigrated to the United States from France in 1875, and lived in San Francisco until moving to Los Angeles in 1915.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: [at bottom] Mrs. Valerie Smythe
Text on negative sleeve: 1629 - Aug 22 1935; Mrs. Valerie Smythe, (92 year old [?]) 8/12/35
Text from newspaper caption: In Ninety-Second Year. Mrs. Valerie Smythe is here cutting her birthday cake at the reunion of her descendents which marked celebration of her ninety-second anniversary.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Smythe, Valerie, 1843-1938

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Older people--California--Los Angeles
Birthday cakes
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Birthday parties