Samuel T. Whittaker and Ethel E. Whittaker at a beach, 1936 (copy photo)
Item Overview
- Title
- Samuel T. Whittaker and Ethel E. Whittaker at a beach, 1936 (copy photo)
- Date Created
- October 13, 1936
- Date
- 1936-10-13
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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In 1936 Ethel Whittaker was murdered in a fake hold-up plot. The transient who faked the hold-up was hired by her husband, Samuel Whittaker. Samuel Whittaker had taken out two life insurance polices before his wife's death, in addition to the ones she already had. Samuel T. Whittaker was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. He died in San Quentin in 1937.
Copy photo taken October 13, 1936
Samuel T. Whittaker and his wife Ethel E. Whittaker stand in the ocean, one arm around the other. They are wearing one piece swimsuits. A pier is in the background. - Caption
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Written underneath photograph: Mr & Mrs Samuel T. Whittaker
Handwritten on negative: Mr + Mrs. Sam Whittaker
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 4412--10-13-36. Mr & Mrs Sam T Whittaker. Samuel T. Whittaker & Ethel E. Whittaker
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnt4g
- 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
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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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .