Catherine Geist seeks monetary compensation, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Catherine Geist seeks monetary compensation, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

January 13, 1936

Date

1936-01-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Singer Sues on Injuries," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 3.
Miss Geist's lawsuit is being directed against the owner of the South Kenmore property Mrs. Ray Kohn, who maintains that Miss Geist had passed over the same spot many times before and her accident was due to her own negligence.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3246 - Catherine Geist Accident Suit -> opera singer fell + missed performance 1-15-36 [stamped:] Jan 13 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Catherine Geist, singer, slipped on a gravel-strewn sidewalk and suffered injuries which necessitated the cancellation of an operatic engagement she declared yesterday in her suit for $15,000 against the owner of the property where the accident occurred.
Handwritten on negative: Catherine Geist 1-15-36

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Geist, Catherine

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Portrait photographs
Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Opera singers