Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, Monrovia, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, Monrovia, 1934
- Date Created
- April 16, 1934
- Date
- 1934-04-16
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, before Johnston murdered Smith. Collected by Los Angeles police investigators.
- Caption
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Text on negative sleeve: Johnston, Charles Murder Case 1934
Some excerpts from the correspondence appear in the article, "Spurned Suitor's Love for Slain Girl Pledged by Tender Notes on Playing Cards, Youth Tells Tragic Tale," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 1934: A2.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs - Names
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Smith, Dorothy J., 1915-1934
Johnston, Charles, b. 1911 or 12 - Location
- Monrovia (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_5248
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cv7k1
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .