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

Description: 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.
Photograph published with article: "Children Attend Great-Grandma's Birthday Party," Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 1935: A7
Caption: Handwritten on negative: [at bottom] Mrs. Valerie Smythe
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.
Text on negative sleeve: 1629 - Aug 22 1935; Mrs. Valerie Smythe, (92 year old [?]) 8/12/35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Birthday cakes
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Birthday parties
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Names: Smythe, Valerie, 1843-1938
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_9974
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dj4s2
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