Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933
- Date Created
- 1933
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed. A former student, E. H. Van Dorn, and Luella Pearl, were found guilty of the crime.
Exterior of the bungalow house (623 Buckeye St.) of Luella Pearl Hammer, with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Skeele, Mary B. Mrs. Kidnapping Case, 1933
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
forensic photographs - Subjects
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People
Crime
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Pasadena - Names
- Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.15967307696190
- Latitude
- -118.13767746090900
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_2820
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ckm83
- 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.