Lewis Patrick Phillips, former judge, tending his garden, Downey, 1922
Item Overview
- Title
- Lewis Patrick Phillips, former judge, tending his garden, Downey, 1922
- Date Created
- July 1922
- Date
- 1922-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Former justice of the peace Lewis Patrick Phillips tending the garden of his Downey home. He was interviewed for a newspaper article because at that time he was the last remaining living son of a man who belonged to the Continental Army.
Newspaper caption for a similar photograph: He is Last Son of the Revolution. Judge Lewis Patrick Phillips at His Downey Home, Where, despite his 91 years, he keeps fit by cutting his lawn and tending the garden.
This photograph is related to the article, Smith, Burton L., "Father Fought In Revolution. Ex-Judge Links Independence War With Present. Still Active Although He is 91 Years Old. Has Vivid Recollection of Hero Parent." Los Angeles Times, 22 Jul. 1922:II1.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Phillips, Lewis Patrick, 1831-1926
Sons of the Revolution. California Society - Location
- Downey (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.943098
- Latitude
- -118.131967
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Judges--California--Downey
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11269
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h98q2
- 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 .