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. Different photographs of Helen Wendel Hannah, Frederick Wendel and Lorene Wendel Johnson taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Passport Prized by Heirs Apparent; Book May Be Key To Riches." Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 1932: A1. The siblings, along with their mother Anna Wendel, filed claims for a share of the multi-million fortune of New York recluse Ella Wendel, who died in 1931. She was the last of eight siblings, none of whom ever married, and when she died she left her family estate to various charities. These Wendels, possessing documents linking them to the family tree of the New York Wendels were among 2,303 claims filed to gain a portion of the estate. Helen Wendel Hannah, Frederick Wendel and Lorene Wendel Johnson photographed in front of Helen's Café in Santa Monica. Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Anna Wendel With the "Wanderbuch". Inset - Mrs. Helen Wendel Hannah, Frederick Wendel and Mrs. Lorene Wendel Johnson. Text from negative sleeve: Wendel Ella, 1932
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4312 ark:/21198/zz002cq32j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Johnson, Lorene Wendel, 1905-2005 Hannah, Helen Wendel, b. 1897 or 98 Wendel, Frederick
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