Lucille Traylor takes part in a custody battle, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Lucille Traylor takes part in a custody battle, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

January-February 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Helen Babington LaCour has been accused of being an unfit mother by her former friend and roommate Josephine Seymor. Helen's daughter, a baby girl of eleven months, is being taken care of by Dr. Warren V. Traylor and his wife, who took the baby from a children's home for adoption. However, Ms. LaCour declares she never intended to relinquish her maternal rights.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Two Testify in Baby Case," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan 1936: 3.
The negative sleeve identified this as Josephine Seymour but the newspaper identifies her Mrs. Traylor.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3640 - Josephine Seymour Teacher of Modeling [stamped:] Feb 13 1936
Handwritten on negative: Josephine Seymour Teacher of Modeling

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Custody of children--California--Los Angeles

Names

Hauser, Lucille Graaf Traylor, 1904-1980

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image