Six objects on fabric background, possibly related to Fay Sudow murder case, [1920?]

Item Overview

Title

Six objects on fabric background, possibly related to Fay Sudow murder case, [1920?]

Date Created

[1920?]

Date

1920

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Lower left: dark paper or cardboard tag, reading 26-20
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, December 28, 1920: Lost Black Bag Has No Sudow Clew. The black leather bag lost by Mrs Fay Sudow near Chicago … was sent to Alfred W. Allen, Mrs. Sudow’s attorney, by Fred W Wolf of Chicago, who found it on a road … the bag failed to add to the few meager clews with which the police are trying to solve the slaying. …
Middle right: Damaged or burned slip of paper with handwritten words partly visible: mer, essentia, n necess
Upper right: Gothic-style upper-case letter B of woven cotton, on card or envelope reading: [K220?] 3 5/8 Inch, Solid Cotton, Tico Forms, Padding foundation, Made of same high grade materials used in making embroidery floss, [next phrase obscured: padding over stamping?], Made in desirable styles and sizes, The Intial Company Inc.
6 flat objects, not clearly related, photographed arranged as if for evidence on fabric background
Lower right: Label with decorative border. Text reads: Certificate of examination of Indestructible Index Clincal Thermometer, Manufactured and Verified by C. J. Tagliabue Mfg. Co., New York. No. 334932. Corrections to be applied to the scale readings, determined by comparison with our Standard Thermometer. One minute. Thermometer Reading. 95, 100, 105, 110. Corrections. 0, 0, 0, 0, None. N. B.--When the sign of the correction is + the quantity noted is to be added to the observed scale reading, and when - to be subtracted from it. C. J. Tagliabue Mfg. Co., New York, 1915, 191
Upper left: Script-style upper-case letter B of woven cotton, on card or envelope reading: K486 2 1/8 In. Solid Cotton, Tico Forms, Padding foundation, Made of same high grade materials used in making embroidery floss, [next phrase obscured: padding over stamping?], Made in desirable styles and sizes, The Intial Company Inc.
Middle left: Paper tag torn along upper and lower perforations, reading (printed): Customer's Memorandum, Union Suit, Vest, Drawers, 40, Date, 191, Book no. Check no. (Handwritten): 2, 1.75, 3.50, [86? 06?], 11-15, 8 [Stamped]: NOV 15, 510, 3

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: ? (Sudow, Fay Case 1920)? other subjects?

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Legal
Crime