Chief matron Vada Sullivan and some female inmates celebrate Christmas, 1935-1936

Title: Chief matron Vada Sullivan and some female inmates celebrate Christmas, 1935-1936
Date Created: December-January 1935-1936
Date: 1935-12-01/1936-01-31
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Three women gather around the Christmas tree. One woman holds a dress and another holds a doll. Mrs. Sullivan stands behind the woman with the doll, holding clothes.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Jail Life Not So Bad," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan 1936: A3.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Vada Sullivan + gals X mas Tree 12-19-35
Text from negative sleeve: 4072 - Vada Sullivan (chief matron) Oliver Dean Harrington Goodrich Mrs Dorothy Harrington (baby of <-) (in jail on bad check charge) (County Jail Christmas) 12-19-35 [stamped:] Dec (?) (?)

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Sullivan, Vada C., b. 1888 or 9
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles
Christmas decorations
Prisoners--California--Los Angeles
Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles
Prison uniforms--California--Los Angeles
Toys

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13077
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn6m1
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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