Rebecca Webb and 82-year-old subscriber Charles F. Dean, Los Angeles, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Rebecca Webb and 82-year-old subscriber Charles F. Dean, Los Angeles, 1938

Date Created

October 1938

Date

1938-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Honor Planned for Pioneers," Los Angeles Times, 09 Oct 1938: 12.
A picture of a photograph of Mr. Dean reading a copy of the Los Angeles Times sitting beside Rebecca Webb, who writes on a pad of paper.
82-year-old Charles F. Dean celebrates a Los Angeles Times and a Chamber of Commerce anniversary. He has subscribed to the LA Times for 53 years, since October 12, 1885.
The negative sleeve is stamped as November 25, 1938 but the photograph appears with an article from October 9, 1938.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: As a prelude to observing the fiftieth anniversary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Charles F. Dean, one of its pioneer members, renews his subscription to The Times for the fifty-third consecutive year, with Miss Rebecca Webb of the subscription department.
Handwritten on negative: Chas F. Dean
Text from negative sleeve: 15015 - Charles F. Dean one of founders of LA C of C. C of C Golden Jubilee year renews sub. to LA Times for 53rd year. copy 11-25-38 [stamped:] illegible

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Webb, Rebecca
Dean, Charles F., b. 1856 or 57

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Anniversaries--California--Los Angeles
Newspapers--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles