Royal Leonard, seated in the witness stand, reading, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview
- Title
- Royal Leonard, seated in the witness stand, reading, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 5, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Royal Leonard sits in the witness box and is reading a paper he holds in his hands. Two unidentified men are in front of him, one sitting at a table, and one standing, blurred. A chalkboard is behind the two men with the judge's name on it. Florence Suddarth is seated on the far right of the photo, behind a table; she is partially cut off.
Florence Suddarth, secretary to an airline president, claimed that Royal Leonard, aviator, was the father of her 7 month old daughter, Royale Regina, and brought a suit against him asking for child support of $150/month. Leonard was judged the father of her child, and ordered to pay $50/month.
Judge's name incorrect on negative sleeve: correct name is Judge Bowron.
Related to several news stories regarding the paternity suit in the Los Angeles Times, dated August 3-September 14, 1935. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 1430. Royal Leonard. Leonard--Suddarth baby case. Judge Bowman. 8/5/35 [stamped:] Aug 8 1935
Text on chalkboard: [FL]ETCHER BOWRON Judge
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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Paternity--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Suddarth, Florence, b.1897
Leonard, Royal - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_7957
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dfr74
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .