Officials working on the Mary Skeele kidnapping case at a desk with open cans of food, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Officials working on the Mary Skeele kidnapping case at a desk with open cans of food, 1933
- Date Created
- 1933
- Date
- 1933
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic 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 was found guilty of the crime.
Officials working on the Mary Skeele kidnapping case at a desk with open cans of food on a newspaper, including tomato soup and condensed milk - 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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forensic photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2811
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ckk94
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .