Jane Emerson, Walter Emerson's wife, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

Item Overview

Title

Jane Emerson, Walter Emerson's wife, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

Date Created

January 1935-March 1936

Date

1935-01/1936-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Actor Seeks To End Ties," Los Angeles Times, 05 Jan 1935: A5.
Walter and Jane Emerson have been married since 1922, separated since December 16, 1934. They have three sons. Mr. Emerson ascertains that Mrs. Emerson and Barton Sewell have been secretly seeing each other. However, Walter Emerson had also been seeing Leah Clampitt Sewell.
The photograph of Mrs. Emerson is in a wooden framed picture.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Jane Emerson, whose husband seeks divorce in proceedings begun yesterday.
Text from negative sleeve: 4440 Emerson, Jane + Atty. W.J. Gilbert + rich yachtsman -> Barton Sewell (MAR 25 1936 stamp) married to Leah C. Sewell double divorce 2 couples. -> Walter Emerson screenwriter + actor Box 13
Handwritten on negative: Jane. N. Emerson.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Trials (Adultery)--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles