Zola Vredenburgh watches Judge Robert Kenny playing chess againast a Judge Wilbur Curtis, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Zola Vredenburgh watches Judge Robert Kenny playing chess againast a Judge Wilbur Curtis, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

December 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "Jurists Engage on Chess Game for Court Title," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 1934: A2 [and (cropped) "Not So Sober as a Judge," Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 1936: H4].
Photograph of Judge Robert W. Kenny playing chess against Judge Wilbur Curtis as Zola Vredenburgh observes.

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: Kenny, Robert W. Judge
Text from newspaper caption: Epochal chess battle of the Superior Court represented by Judge Kenny (left) against the Municipal tribunal, championed by Judge Curtis, starts with Miss Zola Vredenburgh, Judge Kenny's secretary, contributing psychological assistance to her employer.
Handwritten on negative: Judge Robert W. Kenny, Zola Vredenburgh, Judge Wilbur Curtis.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Chess
Cabinet officers--California
Judges--California--Los Angeles

Names

Kenny, Robert W. (Robert Walker), 1901-1976
Vredenburgh, Zola, 1903-1988
Curtis, Wilbur C. (Wilbur Cecil), 1899-1958

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image