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Title: Farewell to matrimony
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
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: After testifying that "she didn't care for me anymore and called me names", Alton F. Robertson, 21, Guadalcanal veteran, won a divorce today from his wife, Lovdene. Despite the divorce, they parted the best of friends. Robertson is shown kissing his former wife, right, while Mrs. Patricia Walden, a witness, looked on. Photo dated: November 9, 1943.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057575
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 146.; HE-001-457 4x5
CARL0000062402
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22557
Subject: Robertson, Alton F
Robertson, Lovdene
Walden, Patricia
Divorced people
Divorce settlements
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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