Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

Title: Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created: 1933
Date: 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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, E. H. Van Dorn, and Luella Pearl, were found guilty of the crime.
Exterior of the bungalow house o Luella Pearl Hammer (623 Buckeye St.), with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Skeele, Mary B. Mrs. Kidnapping Case, 1933

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
forensic photographs
Names: Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.159737441380200
Latitude: -118.13777670264200
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Dwellings--California--Pasadena
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Crime

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2819
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ckm7k
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