Judge Samuel R. Blake puts four orphans into homes just in time for the holidays, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Judge Samuel R. Blake puts four orphans into homes just in time for the holidays, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 18, 1935

Date

1935-12-18

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Similar photograph appears with the article, "Babies Given New Homes," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec 1935: A1.
Judge Blake surrounds himself with four young children that have been recently adopted standing and sitting on a table.
Just in time for Christmas, seven children from the Children's Home Finding Society of California were adopted by families in Superior Judge Blake's court.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4085 - LtR- Robert Kuhn Helen Kuhn Paul Dennis Arthur Bowke Heywood Judge Sam Blake Xmas adoptions [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Superior Judge Blake played Santa yesterday as he signed adoption papers for seven children. At left is Robert Kuhn, adopted four years ago. The others, adopted yesterday, are left to right: Paul Dennis, Arthur Bowke Heywood, and, standing on table, Helen Kuhn.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Dennis, Paul, 1935
Heywood, Arthur Bowke, 1934
Blake, Samuel R., 1895-1974
Kuhn, Helen (Helen Ruth Kuhn Summers), 1934-1993
Kuhn, Robert Marshall, b. 1929 or 1930

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Holidays--California--Los Angeles
Orphans--California--Los Angeles
Adoption--California--Los Angeles