Ripley Nicholas Baylies celebrating his 90th birthday with daughter Mrs. Harriet Tilden at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 1935

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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., 34.101270, View of Ripley Nicholas Baylies, seated in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, presents on lap, cigar in left hand, his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Tilden, seated behind him, in blouse, dress, with arms around her father. Baylies, a former Iowa Circuit Court judge, attributes his long life to eating whatever he wants and living mostly outdoors., Text from negative sleeve: 2163, Mrs. Averill Tilden, Judge Ripley Nicholas Baylies - 90, Judge, 9/8/35, Text from newspaper caption: Ripley Nicholas Baylies, former Iowa Circuit Court judge, celebrates ninetieth birth anniversary at Hollywood Hotel with daughter, Mrs. Averrill Tilden. Note presents and the judge's cigar., -118.341747, Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Averill Tilden, Judge Ripley Nicholas Baylies, This photograph appears with the article, "Ninety Years Earns Jubilee: Birth Anniversary Kept By Nonagenarian Jurist," Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 1935.