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Photograph of three threatening notes received by Lalla Vennum in Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Photograph of three threatening notes received by Lalla Vennum in Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: January 27, 1926
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Three threatening notes received by Lalla Vennum, and her mother, that warn the Lalla to marry Ed Mylar. Note #1, "You got her away but it will do no good. Well get both." Note #2, "Warning. Lalla Vennum You and E.D. Mylar must be married within 2 days or you'll both wish you had. K.K.K." Note #3, (mostly illegible), includes "final notice."
Related to the article, "Seek Clew In Girl Branding; Police Hunt Hooded Pair of Mutilators; Fiery Cross Burned Into Flesh of Arm; K.K.K. Warnings Followed by Attack," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1926: A10.
Handwritten on negative: KKK notes in Lalla Vennum case
Text from negative sleeve: Vennum, Mrs. Lalla, 1926
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4214
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Language: English
Subject: Crimes--California--Los Angeles
Vennum, Lillian, b. 1906 or 07
Vennum, Beatrice, b. 1878 or 79
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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