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) 825-2176
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Vada Sullivan, seated on floor or low stool, next to dresser with open bottom drawer, holding hand of sleeping baby Helen Arce, wrapped in blanket in drawer A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 1, 1933, Baby Naps in Dresser Drawer, Mother of 11-Day-Old Girl Still Serving Sentence, with caption: … Vada Sullivan, County Jail matron, with Baby Helen Arce, who sleeps in dresser drawer at jail. … The infant was born at General Hospital on the 17th inst., to Mrs. Lucy or Louisa Arce … while serving a sentence of 180 days for vagrancy … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Sullivan, Vada, Matron, 1931 Handwritten at edge of negative: Vada Sullivan, Helen Arce
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3147 uclamss_1429_3147 ark:/21198/zz002cmxxq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Legal People Sullivan, Vada C., b. 1888 or 9 Arce, Helen, b. 1933
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