Lewis S. Carter, Civil War veteran, leaving his lodging house in Santa Monica, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Lewis S. Carter, Civil War veteran, leaving his lodging house in Santa Monica, 1939

Date Created

January 24, 1939

Date

1939-01-24

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Related to articles: "G. A. R. Veterans to Yield Charter: Last Two Survivors of Post Offer Relic to Sawtelle Home," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan 1939: A3 and "G. A. R. Post Disbanded: Two Survivors of Membership of 2000 Surrender Charter," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan 1939: A1.
Lewis S. Carter, Civil War Union veteran, is stepping out of his lodging house in Santa Monica, California. He is wearing a three piece suit and hat. Behind him is an unidentified person in a wheelchair. Carter lived to be 102.
In 1939, Lewis S. Carter and John T. Eaton were the last remaining Civil War veterans of the John A. Martin Post no. 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War Union Veterans organization. They surrendered their charter on Jan. 30, 1939.

Caption

Handwritten on negative sleeve: 15448. Lewis S. Carter 1-24-39 (1 of 2 remaining in John A. Martin Post 153 Grand Army of the Republic, disbanding)
Handwritten on negative: Lewis S. Carter 1-24-39

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Grand Army of the Republic
Carter, Lewis S. (Lewis Samuel), 1841-1944

Location

Santa Monica (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lodging houses--California--Santa Monica
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Wheelchairs