Fullerton mayor W.L. Hale presents "Uncle Willie" with new wagon, Fullerton, 1934

Item Overview
- Title
- Fullerton mayor W.L. Hale presents "Uncle Willie" with new wagon, Fullerton, 1934
- Date Created
- August 15, 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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"Uncle Willie" (William Adams, right), a 97 year old Civil War veteran, is presented with a new wagon by city officials and Mayor W.L. Hale (left) in Fullerton, Calif.
Photograph was published in article: "Friends 'Chip-In,' Come to Rescue," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1934: 6. - Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: Mayor Hale of Fullerton (at left) and "Uncle Willie" Adams in a new green wagon presented to "Uncle Willie," who now can resume gathering old newspapers which he had to almost give up recently when he lost his old wagon.
Text on negative sleeve: Hale, W.L. Fullerto[sic] Mayor
Handwritten on negative: W.L. Hale + Uncle Willie Adams
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Mayors--California--Fullerton
Veterans--American - Names
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Hale, W. L., (William Lee), 1862-1948
Adams, Willie, b. 1838 - Location
- Fullerton (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_5093
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cv27f
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .