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Title: Virginia Atkinson, who filed a damage suit, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: October 2, 1924
1924-10-02
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: Virginia Atkinson seated in an office. She filed a damage suit against Hyman Masur, a machinery salesman who assaulted her with a whip. Masur was deemed to be mentally sound, serving a month in jail and paying a fine. A similar photo appears with the "Whipping Case Girl Sues: Asks $25,000 from "Bewitched" Salesman; Principals Encounter After Police Court Trial," Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 1924: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Atkinson, Virginia. 1924
Handwritten on negative: Virginia Atkinson
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3691_G192
ark:/21198/z1sj7c9s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Victims--California--Los Angeles
Atkinson, Virginia
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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