David G. Lorraine in a courtroom, Los Angeles, circa 1931
Item Overview
- Title
- David G. Lorraine in a courtroom, Los Angeles, circa 1931
- Date Created
- [circa 1931]
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Summary
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
- Description
- Living in Texas in the 1920s and financed by $18,000 from his first wife, Rose, David G. Lorraine invented and patented oil-field machinery. In 1925, David G. Lorraine offered Rose $10,000 for her share of the corporation, claiming he was about to go bankrupt. He then divorced her, moved to California, remarried, and his company prospered, making him wealthy. Rose initiated a law suit to gain her rightful share of the wealth, claiming Lorraine had deliberately deceived her. She won her law suit.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Lorraine, David G.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Lorraine, David G. (David Gordon), 1882-1971
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_5741
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cvtk7
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .