3/4 length portrait of Walburga Oesterreich, circa 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- 3/4 length portrait of Walburga Oesterreich, circa 1930
- Date Created
- 1930
- Date
- 1930
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
- Handwriting on negative states "Mrs.Walburga Oesterreich" In 1922 Walburga Oesterreich’s husband Fred Oesterreich was shot and killed supposedly by a burglar in their Los Angeles, Calif. home. Eight years later after being arrested for another crime Otto Sanhuber confessed to police that he had killed Fred Oesterreich in party with Walburga. Sanhuber stated that he had lived in the attic of the Oesterreich’s home for years in order to carry on an affair with Walburga. In 1930 Sanhuber was put on trial and was convicted of manslaughter. Walburga Oesterreich was tried for murder and conspiracy but her jury ended in deadlock. She was never retried.
- Caption
- Portrait photographs
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
- Oesterreich, Walburga, d.1961
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Trials (Conspiracy)--California--Los Angeles
People
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclalat_1429_b3719_G3448
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002pjzb
- 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
- License
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