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Title: Fleeta Gettle reunited with her kidnapped husband William, Beverly Hills, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: May 15, 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 Arcadia funds.
Fleeta sits on a folding chair while William stands behind her holding both of her hands in his own.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Police to be Commended," Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1934: 6.
Fleeta Gettle proclaims herself to be "America's Happiest Woman" after she is reunited with her kidnapped husband William F. Gettle.
Handwritten on negative: Gettle Wm, F. + Mrs.
Text from negative sleeve: GETTLE, WILLIAM F. KIDNAP CASE
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4856
ark:/21198/zz002cts2j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Spouses--California--Beverly Hills
Reunions--California--Beverly Hills
Kidnappings--California--Beverly Hills
Gettle, William F., 1887-1941
Gettle, Fleeta Beatrice Girten, 1901-1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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