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4 images. Child custody case, 18 June 1954. Susan Davis - 3½ Mrs. Mildred Davis - 26 - Mother Carl Davis - 28 - Father A. Brian Weinberg - Attorney Jack Golden and Mrs. Sadelle Golden (Maternal Grandparents) Mrs. Lucille Chauncey - Sister of Mrs. Davis. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1956-06-18. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Davis Child Custody. #7-11-12: (Woman and little girl): Mrs. Mildred Davis, 26, and her daughter, Susan, 3½, as they appeared while Mrs. Davis testified in bitter custody case. #45: Carl Davis, 28, Susan's father, engaged in a bitter custody battle with his wife over the little girl. #17: L to R - Jack Golden and Sadelle Golden, maternal grandparents of Susan, and Carl Davis, the father, with whom the Golden's are siding. #8: L to R: Mrs. Mildred Davis, 26, clings to daughter, Susan, 3½, and weeps as her sister, Mrs. Lucille Chauncey, and her mother Mrs. Sadelle Golden, vainly seek to take the child, whose custody moments before had been granted Mrs. Davis' estranged husband, Carl, 28. #29: Attorney A. Brian Weinberg, Susan Davis, 3 ½ Carl Davis, her father, 28. #32: Carl Davis, 28, with his daughter, Susan, 3½. #7: Mrs. Mildred Davis, 26, and her daughter, Susan, 3½. #30: L to R: Carl Davis, 28, his attorney, A. Brian Weinberg holding Davis' daughter, Susan, 3½."
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image
Format
8 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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