Gertrude Turner and another woman on yacht Aafje, [1937?]
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Item Overview
- Title
- Gertrude Turner and another woman on yacht Aafje, [1937?]
- Photographer
- Finley, Howard, b. 1899 or 1900
- Date Created
- [1937?]
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Related to Los Angeles Times article, January 2, 1938, Yacht Pair Face Charge, Mad Pirate’s Crew Members to Be Arraigned Tomorrow. The closing chapters of the mad piracy voyage of the yacht Aafje which cost the life of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man, in a murder by Jack Morgan, later slain by members of his crew, are scheduled to be written next week in Federal court. … [Robert] Horne and [George] Spernak threw Morgan to the sharks as a defense measure to save their own lives and those of three women and a child aboard the ill-fated schooner. …
Gertrude Turner, in turtleneck and slacks, seated at helm of yacht, with another woman, in coat, seated at right, with stern of yacht in background
Howard Finley was a Los Angeles Times staff photographer.
This photograph, cropped to show only Gertrude Turner, appears with Los Angeles Times article, December 30, 1937, Faulding’s Craft, the Aafje, and His Fiancee - Caption
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Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10253 12/31/37 Howard Finley
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Gertrude Turner, said to have been the fiancee of Faulding, shown as she sat at the wheel of the Aafje. She is reported one of the members of the party on the craft. Photos courtesy of H.G. Wilson Company, Yacht and Ship Brokers
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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Transportation
People - Names
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Turner, Gertrude, b. ca. 1907
Aafje (Schooner yacht)
Faulding, Dwight, 1888-1937 - Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
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uclamss_1429_0324
0324 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9k9z
- 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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