Mother and daughter Joan and Joan Claudette are apprehended for fraud, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mother and daughter Joan and Joan Claudette are apprehended for fraud, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

July 31, 1935

Date

1935-07-31

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Mother and daughter Mrs. and Miss Joan Claudette of 1429 West Thirty-ninth street have been taken into police custody on the grounds of mail fraud, reportedly writing to men throughout the east and Midwest pretending to be an underprivileged girl with an abusive aunt.
Photograph appears with the article, "Matrimony Fraud Laid to Woman and Daughter," Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1935: A1.
Joan sits beside a typewriter, hiding her face with her hand. A woman whose face is cut off by the camera frame, presumably her mother, stands beside her.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Miss Joan Claudette 7/19/35
Text from negative sleeve: 1339 - Mrs. Joan Claudette + Daughter Miss Joan Claudette who were arrested for running a Matrimony Bureau Racket 7/19/35 [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Miss Joan Claudette, at left, and her mother, Mrs. Joan Claudette, booked on suspicion of using the mails to defraud in connection with what authorities describe as a matrimonial fraud with eastern and midwestern bachelors as their victims.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Claudette, Joan, b. 1894 or 95
Claudette, Joan, b. 1912 or 13

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles
Typewriters