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
"Dr." Helon B. Allen stands inside a jail cell, covering his face in his hands, arguably to evade photographic capture. The cell door is open and he wears street clothes, suggesting that this is merely a holding cell. Allen was held in Los Angeles on a Mann Act charge. Allen, a schoolteacher and the adopted father of fifty-seven children, was arrested on Mann Act charges for illegally transporting underage women from Virginia to California. Several articles report this news item from July and August 1923, including "Principals in Mann Act Case," Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1923: II3. Text from negative sleeve: Allen, Helon B. Dr. Mann Act. Handwritten on negative: Dr. B. Helon Allen
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3690_G053 ark:/21198/z1868851
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Jails--California--Los Angeles County Criminals--California--Los Angeles Allen, Helon Bertrand
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