Chief Davis hands actress Gloria Swason the paid mortgage to the Bide-a-Wee home founded by Minnie Barton, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Chief Davis hands actress Gloria Swason the paid mortgage to the Bide-a-Wee home founded by Minnie Barton, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- January 25, 1935
- Date
- 1935-01-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Davis, James E. (James Edgar), 1889-1949
Barton, Minnie
Brill, Mary
Bullock, Georgia P., 1878-1957
Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Entertainment
Charities--California--Los Angeles
Women's Shelters--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
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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
- 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 .