Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the caption, "Beatrice Lee, beauty queen, whose 'drink-for-drink-' defense won suit" Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1934: 4. Portrait photograph of former Miss Utah of the 1930 Miami National Beauty Contest, Beatrice Lee. Lee is smiling and clasping her hands together. Photograph was probably taken on October 26, 1934 after Lee had won a case in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gates' court against Florence Robinson, who was suing Lee for $25,000 in damages for her injuries after the two had had an automobile crash. This photograph appears with the article, "Gin Fizzes Lead Them to Court: Beauty Wins Wreck Suit," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1934: 4. Text from negative sleeve: Lee, Beatrice. Miss America, 1930, Miss Utah. Handwritten on negative: Miss Beatrice Lee, Miss America-1930.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5507 ark:/21198/zz002cvjhb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Beauty contestants--United States Lee, Beatrice, approximately 1913-
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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