Newspaper clipping featuring Mata Hari, an exotic dancer, courtesan and alleged spy, Los Angeles

Title: Newspaper clipping featuring Mata Hari, an exotic dancer, courtesan and alleged spy, Los Angeles
Date Created: [between 1925-1945?]
Date: 1925/1945
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Newspaper clipping from the N. Y. Evening Graphic featuring a picture of Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was accused of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Because of this charge, she was executed in France on October 15, 1917. Review of official case documents in 1985 revealed that Mata Hari was most likely innocent. Mata Hari was the stage name for Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hari, Mata
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [Spies ???]

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Mata Hari, 1876-1917
New York evening graphic
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Courtesans--California--Los Angeles
Clippings
Spies--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Media
Entertainment

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027zmcx
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Rights Country: US
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