Esther Hoyt reads to her sister Lois Hoyt, Eagle Rock, 1938
Item Overview
- Title
- Esther Hoyt reads to her sister Lois Hoyt, Eagle Rock, 1938
- Photographer
- Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
- Date Created
- December 1938
- Date
- 1938-12
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
-
Retired teachers and sisters from Indiana 94-year-old Lois and 91-year-old Esther live together at W.C.T.U. Lois is confined to her bed, suffering from complete blindness, and enjoys being read to by her younger sister, who is completely deaf.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Retired Women Find Peace In Eagle Rock W.C.T.U. Home," Los Angeles Times, 02 Jan 1939: A3.
Lois lies in bed with her eyes closed while Esther sits beside her holding a copy of the Los Angeles Times.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
-
Hoyt, Lois, b. 1844 or 45
Hoyt, Esther, b. 1847 or 48 - Location
- Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.133244
- Latitude
- -118.217142
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Blind persons--California--Eagle Rock
Older people--California--Eagle Rock
Sisters--American--California--Eagle Rock
Reading--California--Eagle Rock
Newspapers--California--Eagle Rock
Retirement communities--California--Eagle Rock
Teachers--California--Eagle Rock
Deaf persons--California--Eagle Rock
Beds
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11986
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h8vg6
- 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
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .