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Title: Home of kidnap victim William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa May, 1934]
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Beverly Hills millionaire William F. Gettle was kidnapped and held in a rented home in La Crescenta, California on May 9, 1934. He was found four days later after police conducted a raid of the house.
A similar photograph appears with the headline, "Millionaire and View of Place Where He and Friend Were Seized by Kidnappers," Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1934: 1.
The Gettle home on 723 Linden Drive, Beverly Hills, photographed at night.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4854
ark:/21198/zz002cts0h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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