Dr. Joseph Widney celebrates his 90th birthday with a cello, Los Angeles, 1931
Item Overview
- Title
- Dr. Joseph Widney celebrates his 90th birthday with a cello, Los Angeles, 1931
- Date Created
- December 1931
- Date
- 1931-12
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Dr. Widney is a man with a long white beard. He sits in a chair with his cello in his lap, holding a bow against the instrument. In the background there are other instruments and several bookcases visible.
Photograph appears with the article, "Dr. J.P. Widney at Milestone," Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec 1931: 14.
Civil War army surgeon and one of the founders of U.S.C. entertained guests at his home to celebrate his 90th birthday.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 1841-1938
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Bookcases--California--Los Angeles
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Violoncellos
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Veterans--American
Floor coverings
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2623
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dcf08
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- 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 .