Freda M. MacArthur (left) and Emma Barber, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Freda M. MacArthur (left) and Emma Barber, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

July 15, 1935

Date

1935-07-15

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Freda M. MacArthur (left) and Emma Barber sit next to each other in wooden chairs. MacArthur wears a light colored short-sleeved dress with dark piping, and a hat. She clutches a pocketbook in her lap and rests her left arm on the chair arm. Barber wears a dark polka-dot dress with flutter sleeves and a hat with flowers on it. Both elbows rest on the chair arms. A pair of gloves rests in her lap.
Possibly related to several stories in the Los Angeles Times from July 16-20, 1935 on the death of Juliann Graham (sometimes spelled Julia Graham). She allegedly committed suicide with Ben Reynolds's gun, with whom she was staying, after two earlier attempts with poison.

Caption

Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1286. Mrs. Freda M. MacArthur; Mrs. Emma Barber ; Julia Graham Suicide 7/15/35 [stamped:] Jul 22 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Barber, Emma
MacArthur, Freda M.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Women--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940
Suicides--California--Los Angeles