Anna Dyson and Helen Volk as Anna petitions for a divorce from her husband, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Anna Dyson and Helen Volk as Anna petitions for a divorce from her husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 25, 1936
Date: 1936-02-25
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The women sit together on a hallway bench, Anna holding her cane and a slip of paper while her daughter-in-law puts an arm around her shoulders.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Decree Won By Wife, 84," Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb 1936: A3.
Mrs. Dyson divorced 73-year-old James Dyson, retired gardener, saying that he took advantage of funds that she gave him and walked out on her when she was sick. They were married ten years ago in Honolulu.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3792 - Mrs Anna Dyson Mrs Helen Volk 84 yr old Divorcee 2-24-36 [stamped:] Feb 28 1936
Handwritten on negative: L 2 R Mrs Anna Dyson + Mrs Helen Volk 2-25-36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Volk, Helen
Dyson, Anna, b. 1852 or 53
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Staffs (Sticks)
Divorced women
Older people--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12838
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmxc3
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