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Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: October 13, 1931
1931-10-13
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Rodman Robeson and Helen A. Hamilton Robeson meet at City Hall after a 22-year separation. Married in 1909, Rodman Robeson left his wife two months later, and joined the Army, and later remarried. Helen A. Hamilton believed Rodman to have died in a mudslide a few years after their estrangement. Similar photographs appear with the article "STRANGE TRIANGLE FORMED BY FATE: WOMAN FINDS 'DEAD' HUSBAND Police Bring Meeting After Twenty-two Years Soldier of Fortune Admits He's Rewed Former Mate Also Marries Again as 'Widow,'" Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1931: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Robeson, Rodman. Humane Society.
Handwritten on negative: Rodman Robeson, Mrs. Helen A Hamilton Robeson
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3726_G4227
ark:/21198/z13c1s5r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Missing persons--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Robeson, Helen A. Hamilton, 1889-1950
Robeson, Rodman,1883-1967
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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