Roland West and Harvey Priester in audience for grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, circa 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Roland West and Harvey Priester in audience for grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, circa 1935
- Date Created
- [December, 1935 - January, 1936]
- Date
- 1935-12/1936-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Taken at grand jury investigation into death of film actress Thelma Todd. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Priester was Todd’s friend. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Priester, Harvey; Schafer, R.H.W.; Whitehead, Mae
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Harvey Priester & Roland West, 12542
Text from archival nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Priester, Harvey; Schafer, R.H.W.; Whitehead, Mae
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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West, Roland, 1885-1952
Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935
Priester, Harvey - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Grand juries
Legal
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002552ts
- Manifest url
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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.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .