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Title
Mrs. Sarah Bryant and daughter, Susan Claire Bryant
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Image marked up for publication.
A two-year game of hide-and-seek between a husband and his divorced wife ended in Domestic Relations Court on November 26, 1947, when Sumner C. Bryant, a non-practicing corporation attorney who had disappeared with his daughter Susan Claire, now 3, was arrested. Mr. Sumner had taken young Susan from her mother, Mrs. Sarah Bryant, on Dec. 1, 1945, and had "hid" the child in Chandler, Arizona, where friends of his were living at the time. The child was eventually returned safely to her mother, who had been given sole custody, and Mr. Bryant was released from jail soon after.
Photograph caption dated December 4, 1947 reads, "Mrs. Sarah Bryant And Daughter Susan Separated for Two Years, They Finally Are Reunited Again After Child Is Found in Arizona."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092193
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 31
CARL0004993880
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28319
Subject
Mothers and daughters--California--Los Angeles
Custody of children--California--Los Angeles
Dispute resolution (Law)--California--Los Angeles
Parent and child (Law)--California--Los Angeles
Husband and wife--California--Los Angeles
Kidnapping--California--Los Angeles
Abduction--California--Los Angeles
Families--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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