Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Legal - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Textured black leather bag with handle and clasp at top, flat bottom, on edge of round table with bookcase in background. Bag is wrapped with 2 thin ropes and affixed with address label from Fred W. Wolf to Alfred Allen, and shipping label marked Collect.
Date:: December, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Telegram text reads: FRED ALLEN WILL COME WHEN NEEDED PLEASE LET ME NO HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE WHEN TRIAL COMES UP IF TRIAL CAN BE POSTPONED FOR A WHILE WIRE ANSWER AT ONCE SO I WILL KNOW WHAT ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE AND HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE FAY SUDOW
Date:: September 28, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Meyer Simon and his son Norton Simon at the doorway to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury room in Los Angeles.
Date:: May 11, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Arthur B. Crouch was known in Helensville, New Zealand as John Grey or "Honest John."
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Actress Kathleen Burke in court for her divorce, wearing a dress, hat and necklace with a pendant cross
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, "Carr Takes Former Job, Immigration Director Back in Post Here as Duties of Office Increase," December 27, 1934.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 16, 1935, Pond Death Jury Splits, Fatal Causes Undecided, Inquest Conducted in Case of Mrs. Mary E. James; Husband Weeps
Date:: August 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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