Roxana Spreckels divorces her husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Roxana Spreckels divorces her husband, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- April 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Roxana is a woman with short blonde hair, big, light-colored eyes, and painted lips, wearing a fur coat and a small black hat.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Spreckles Fight Ended," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr 1936: 2.
Roxana Spreckels, nee Brown, has divorced husband John Spreckels and won custody of their baby daughter Elsie. Mr. Spreckels, a man described by his ex-wife as a violent alcoholic, is to pay $600 a month alimony. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Roxana Gloria Brown Spreckels
Text from negative sleeve: 4829 - Roxana Gloria Brown Spreckels Divorce from sugar heir [stamped:] Apr 15 1936
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Hirtensteine, Roxana Gloria Spreckels, 1911-1970
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Portrait photographs
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Fur coats
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14070
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7kqx
- 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 .