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Los Angeles County Jail matron Vada Sullivan with baby sleeping in dresser drawer, 1933

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Title: Los Angeles County Jail matron Vada Sullivan with baby sleeping in dresser drawer, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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) 825-2176
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
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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