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: Exterior of the bungalow house (623 Buckeye St.) of Luella Pearl Hammer, with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Skeele, Mary B. Mrs. Kidnapping Case, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs
Names: Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.15967307696190
Latitude: -118.13767746090900
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crime
People
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2820
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ckm83
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