Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation, Los Angeles, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation, Los Angeles, 1931

Date Created

October 13, 1931

Date

1931-10-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation. Married in 1909, Rodman Robeson left his wife two months later, and joined the Army, and later remarried. Helen A. Hamilton believed Rodman to have died in a mudslide a few years after their estrangement. Photograph of Rodman Robeson appears with the article "STRANGE TRIANGLE FORMED BY FATE: WOMAN FINDS 'DEAD' HUSBAND Police Bring Meeting After Twenty-two Years Soldier of Fortune Admits He's Rewed Former Mate Also Marries Again as 'Widow,'" Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1931: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Robeson, Rodman. Humane Society.
Handwritten on negative: Rodman Robeson, Mrs. Helen A Hamilton Robeson

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Robeson, Helen A. Hamilton, 1889-1950
Robeson, Rodman,1883-1967

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.05387358

Latitude

-118.2426855

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Missing persons--California--Los Angeles