Myrtle St. Pierre after winning a breach of promise law suit, Los Angeles, 1932

Item Overview
- Title
- Myrtle St. Pierre after winning a breach of promise law suit, Los Angeles, 1932
- Date Created
- July 9, 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph of Myrtle St. Pierre looking happy as she makes a phone call at a pay phone after a jury awarded her $5000 in a breach of promise suit against David Hutton. The location is probably the Los Angeles County Courthouse.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
In 1932, Myrtle St. Pierre brought a breach of promise suit against David Hutton two days after his marriage to the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. The jury awarded her $5,000.
Related to the article "Balm Granted In Hutton Case. Jury Agrees From Start; Sum of $5000 Awarded. Cheer Follows Decision as Temple Disciples Split. Aimee's Mate to Fight on; Miss St. Pierre Satisfied." Los Angeles Times, 10 Jul. 1932. - Caption
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Title and caption from photo standalone: Aimee's Mate must Pay Nurse Who Accused Him: David L. Hutton and Hazel Myrtle Joan St. Pierre [Los Angeles Times, 10 Jul. 1932: 9]
Text from negative sleeve: St. Pierre, Myrtle (Joan), brought suit against David Hutton for betrayal in '34?
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
- Trials (Breach of promise)--California--Los Angeles
- Names
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St. Pierre, Myrtle Hazel Joan, b. 1902 or 1903
Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.) - 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_11504
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9jtg
- 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
- 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 .