Deveda Smith divorces her abusive husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Deveda Smith divorces her abusive husband, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- April 9, 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mrs. Deveda Smith was awarded divorce from husband Francis H. Smith and custody of their five-month-old son William after testifying of his verbal abuse, violence and alcoholism.
Photograph appears with the article, "Drink Leads To Divorce," Los Angeles Times, 09 Apr 1936: 9. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 4693 - Deveda Smith Divorce 4/8/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Handwritten on negative: Deveda Smith 4/8/36
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Devada Smith, who was awarded divorce yesterday.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Divorced women
Abused women--California--Los Angeles - Names
- Smith, Deveda
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_13891
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7cjf
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .