Muriel Wallace and her children Billie, Claire, Gloria and Jacqueline, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Muriel Wallace and her children Billie, Claire, Gloria and Jacqueline, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

February 1934

Date

1934-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Muriel Wallace left her husband and took their 4 children from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles to seek a divorce and they resided at the Hand Rescue Mission, later identified as a cult. When her husband, William Wallace, found them, he asked the police for assistance. The Mission was disbanded and the children returned to San Francisco with their father.
A different photograph of the Wallaces taken on the same occasion appears with the Los Angeles Times article: "Cult Inquiry to be Asked: Matter Will Be Taken to Fitts; Officers Seek Investigation of Mission Assertedly Used as Center; Case of Bay City Woman Also Due for Attention of Prosecutor" on 2/12/1934 with the caption: "Children taken from cult headquarters..."

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Muriel Wallace and children
Text from negative sleeve: Wallace, Muriel Mrs., 1934.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Wallace, Claire
Wallace, Billie
Wallace, Jacqueline
Wallace, Muriel
Wallace, Gloria

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People
Lifestyle
Cults--Los Angeles--California