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

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Bedroom of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: View into the cluttered bedroom and bathroom of the house of Luella Pearl Hammer where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held.
Date Created:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Bedroom of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1934

Dining room of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

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. A former student, E. H. Van Dorn, and Luella Pearl, were found guilty of the crime.
Date Created:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Dining room of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931

Description:: Los Angeles and Pasadena are both mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article
Date Created:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931

"Merry Wives" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1938

Description:: North Hollywood float in the 1938 Tournament of Roses Parade titled, "Merry Wives." The float featured two of the merry wives from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Sir Falstaff being dumped from a basket of linen in an English garden
Date Created:: January 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

"Merry Wives" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1938

Police detective Howard Nutt examining typewriter used in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Pasadena, 1933

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 10, 1933, Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought
Date Created:: February 9, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Police detective Howard Nutt examining typewriter used in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Pasadena, 1933

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