Men sift through and clean-up debris around the ruins of William and Clara Steele's ranch home, Pomona, 1921
Item Overview
- Title
- Men sift through and clean-up debris around the ruins of William and Clara Steele's ranch home, Pomona, 1921
- Date Created
- [circa June 9, 1921]
- Date
- 1921-06-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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At center, the ruins of a stone-lined basement sinks into the ground. At the near corner, a brick chimney rises and extends out-of-frame. Debris from the Steeles' house lightly covers the ground surrounding the open basement. Several men clean-up and sift through debris along the perimeter of the far sides of the pit. One man stands in the basement along its far right side. He, and another man outside the basement, support some pipes. Beyond the pit, small structures stand along the far left and right edges. A grove or orchard stretches between them. Mountains rise in the far distance.
This photograph appears with the article, "SEEK CLEWS TO DOUBLE MURDER IN HOME RUIN.: Friends of Dead Rich Man and Wife Suspect Slaying by Incendiary; Accident, Officers Believe. Figure in Pomona's Grewsome Mystery. DOUBLE MURDER CLEWS HUNTED; Sift Ashes of Dead Couple's Burned Residence; Friends and Police Advance Differing Theories; Slaying is Indicated by Several Circumstances," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jun. 1921: II1
The information supplied on the negative sleeve incorrectly identifies this and related photographs as relating to Dr. Gertrude Steele. These photos instead relate to William and Clara Steele.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Steele, Clara J. Crookshank, 1879-1921
Steele, William, d. 1921 - Location
- Pomona (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Death--California--Pomona
Fires--California--Pomona
Ranches--California--Pomona
Ruins--California--Pomona
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11618
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9prc
- Manifest url
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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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