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

Title: Dr. Joseph P. Widney, still learning at the age of 94, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: April 19, 1936
Date: 1936-04-19
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, “WILL THE aged RULE AMERICA?,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1936: H3.
Caption: 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.
Text from negative sleeve: 6627—Dr Joseph P Widney (former USC Pres.), [Stamped:] SEP 1936.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Joseph P. Widney

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs
Names: Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 1841-1938
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Older people--California--Los Angeles
Gaslight fixtures
Scholars
College administrators
Books
Hand lenses

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14521
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j848c
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .