University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository) Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer) Mae Murray residence (Los Angeles, Calif.) (subject)
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Mae Murray residence, with arched windows and doors, tiled roof, and tiled porch, with garden in foreground, oil well drilling rigs in background Handwritten at edge of negative: 2226 33.961337127835186 -118.45348477363586 Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2226-2227 Venice-Del Rey Beach, Calif, 2 negs, 36, 1929, [8P CO?]. View shows pink Moorish palace of Mae Murray, movie star, which is making a last stand against the onward marching oil derricks on Venice-Del Rey Beach. The homes of Lewis Stone, Janet Gaynor and others are also in the path of the derricks. Prince M'Dvidani, Mae Murray's late husband, is an official of an oil drilling company in this field. [Struck out in pen: 233R1694]
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