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.
Caption: Text on negative sleeve: Hammer, Luella Pearl Kidnap Case
Handwritten on negative: Luella Pearl Hammer

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Hammer, Luella Pearl, 1895-1990
Van Dorn, E. H., (Earl Howard), b. 1893
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.159833
Latitude: -118.137596
Exterior of the bungalow house of Luella Pearl Hammer (623 Buckeye St.), with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held.
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cv37x
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