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Title: Actress and dancer Jean Jarvis with Edward Usher Jr., Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1928
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.
Jean Jarvis was an actress and dancer in the Los Angeles area who passed away in 1933 from illness. Edward (Eddie) Usher Jr. was a well known football star from Michigan.
Jean Jarvis sitting in a chair next to Edward Usher Jr., likely during the trial following the assault of Usher by film director William Nigh.
Text from newspaper caption: Edward Usher Jr., and Jean Jarvis.
Handwritten on negative: Jean Jarvis, WM Usher
Text from newspaper caption: Victim and Cause of Jealous Fury: Edward Usher, Jr. and Jean Jarvis [Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1928: A3]
Text from negative sleeve: Jarvis, Jean Actress, 1927
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5195
ark:/21198/zz002cv5rn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Football players--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Usher, Edward, Jr., 1898-1973
Jarvis, Jean, 1903-1933
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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