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Title: Dorothy Gessey goes to court over brick-throwing incident, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 28, 1935
1935-03-28
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Who Threw That Brick? On Answer Hangs $15,000," Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar 1935: A2.
Elizabeth Gessey is taking her next door neighbor Mattie McKenzie to court on the accusation that Mrs. McKenzie threw a brick at Mrs. Gessey over a dispute that began when Mrs. McKenzie tried to build a brick wall between their properties, causing Mrs. Gessey to break her arm. Her daughter-in-law Dorothy Gessey is to testify on her behalf.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Dorothy Gessey
Text from negative sleeve: GESSEY, DOROTHY MRS.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Dorothy Gessey
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4834
ark:/21198/zz002ctr9p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Portrait photographs
Witness--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Gessey, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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