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. A different photograph of the Wallaces taken on the same occasion appears with the Los Angeles Times article: "Cult Inquiry to be Asked: Matter Will Be Taken to Fitts; Officers Seek Investigation of Mission Assertedly Used as Center; Case of Bay City Woman Also Due for Attention of Prosecutor" on 2/12/1934 with the caption: "Children taken from cult headquarters..." Muriel Wallace left her husband and took their 4 children from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles to seek a divorce and they resided at the Hand Rescue Mission, later identified as a cult. When her husband, William Wallace, found them, he asked the police for assistance. The Mission was disbanded and the children returned to San Francisco with their father. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Muriel Wallace and children Text from negative sleeve: Wallace, Muriel Mrs., 1934.
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