Lucille Truesdell recovers with husband Harry Truesdell, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Lucille Truesdell recovers with husband Harry Truesdell, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

May 2, 1935

Date

1935-05-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

*Stamped date not provided, date that is handwritten on negative used.
Lucille and her husband are both smiling as she stands over the stove and pours him a cup of something to drink.
Photograph appears with the article, "Hiccoughs 'Cure' Told," Los Angeles Times, 03 May 1935: A1.
To abate her attacks of the hiccoughs Lucille has been avoiding eating meat, onions and oranges and since the start of this diet she has been able to resume her household duties without any attacks. Multiple people have written to her suggesting cures such as sticking pins in her body to drinking sweetened vinegar and ether.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Cured of protracted hiccoughing, Mrs. Lucille Truesdell, shown here with her husband, was back home yesterday - on a diet.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Lucille Truesdell + hubby Harry Truesdell 5-2-35
Text from negative sleeve: TRUESDELL, LUCILLE HICCOUGHS, 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Truesdell, Harry Eugene, 1910-1995
Truesdell, Lucille Reynolds

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Hiccups
Stoves--California--Los Angeles
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Sick persons