Ruth Anker, Helen Bradley, and Lou Wade, witnesses in Ernest A. Thompson liquor case, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Ruth Anker, Helen Bradley, and Lou Wade, witnesses in Ernest A. Thompson liquor case, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

October 16, 1935

Date

1935-10-16

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

From left to right, Ruth Anker, Helen Bradley, and Lou Wade standing in a hallway. An emergency firehose cabinet is behind Anker. This photograph was probably taken when the three young women appeared in Municipal Judge Crum's court on October 16, 1935 as witnesses for the prosecution in the case against Ernest A. Thompson, who was charged with selling liquor to minors at 901 South Manhattan Place.
Related to the article,"JURY SHOWN TRUCK LOAD OF LIQUOR: Evidence Seized in Raid by State Control Cofficers Taken Into Court," Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 1935: A3.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L&R Ruth Anker, Helen Bradley, Lou Wade, 10-16-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 2499-- Ruth Anker, Helen Bradley, Lou Wade, witnesses in Thompson juvenile party case, 10-16-35, [stamped:] Oct 22 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Bradley, Helen, 1917 or 1918-
Wade, Lou, 1914 or 1915-
Anker, Ruth, 1916 or 1917-

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Trials--California--Los Angeles
Alcoholic beverage law violations--California--Los Angeles