Image / Mrs. Esther Siegel

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Title: Mrs. Esther Siegel
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Worden, Art
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: First photograph caption dated June 22, 1947 reads, "Tells of married life with Bugsy. 'Bugsy was a good husband, a good father ... I knew of no one who wished to do him harm ...' said Mrs. Esther Siegel today as she told of her married life with Bugsy Siegel in the district attorney's office. The divorced wife of Siegel is shown in a conference with authorities."; Photograph has been marked up for publication.
Second photograph caption dated August 29, 1948 reads, "'Bugsy's' divorced wife files $750,000 claim on estate."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010131
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-000-742 4x5; SCHE_b004_f2_i18
CARL0004958707
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8133
Subject: Siegel, Esther
Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Marriage
Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Family
Criminal investigations
Gangsters' spouses--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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