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Title: Mrs. Beatrice Vennum at her home in Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: January 28, 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.
Mrs. Beatrice Vennum at her home in Los Angeles. Her daughter, Lillian "Lalla" Vennum, is in the foreground, but her image is blurred and scratched out. Lalla told police she was attacked by members of the K.K.K. and her arm was "branded" with a cross. The attack also involved links to her ex-boyfriend.
Related to Los Angeles Times 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." 29 Jan., 1926: pg. A10.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Vennum. [Lillian "Lalla" Vennum is scratched out.]
Text from negative sleeve: Vennum Mrs. Lalla [Lalla is short for Lillian and refers to MISS Vennum, not Mrs.]
Text from newspaper caption: Victim and Her Mother, Above -- Miss Lolia [sic] Vennum and below, Mrs. Vennum.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4215
ark:/21198/zz002cpzq0
Language: No linguistic content
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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