Myrtle St. Pierre wearing a nurse's uniform, circa 1922-1932
Item Overview
- Title
- Myrtle St. Pierre wearing a nurse's uniform, circa 1922-1932
- Date Created
- [between 1922-1932]
- Date
- 1922/1923
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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.
Photographic portrait of Myrtle St. Pierre wearing a nurse's uniform, standing in front of a curtain next to a wooden chair. The adjacent upside-down portrait of a woman is scratched out in the negative and appears to be unrelated. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: St. Pierre, Myrtle (Joan), brought suit against David Hutton for betrayal in '34?
Handwritten on negative: Myrtle St. Pierre
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- St. Pierre, Myrtle Hazel Joan, b. 1902 or 1903
- Location
- California
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Nurses--American--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11507
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9jx1
- 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 .