Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele with detectives, blindfolded, at the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933

Item Overview
- Title
- Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele with detectives, blindfolded, at the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933
- Date Created
- February 9, 1933
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Kidnapping victim Mary B. Skeele, wearing coat, face obscured by blindfold, outside door of the bungalow house of Luella Pearl Hammer where she had been held, with son Franklin B. Skeele behind her holding her elbows, Detective Joe Taylor at left, and 2 or 3 other men visible through doorway inside house, with dirt backyard, trash, tree, and potted plants foreground and background
A similar photograph appears with the article, "Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought, with caption: Scenes in Sensational Drama Aftermath of Holding for Ransom Wife of S.C. Dean of Music. Blindfolded, Mrs. Skeele is taken through house and grounds of the Pasadena home by Chief of Detectives Taylor, left, and her son, Franklin Skeele," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1933 - Caption
- Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?]
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Crime
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
People - Names
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Skeele, Franklin Bosworth, 1893-1969
Taylor, Joseph, 1878-1955
Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942 - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.15987615763220
- Latitude
- -118.13755139708500
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
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0248
uclamss_1429_0248 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9gp6
- 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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- 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 .