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Title
Judge Ben Lindsey and the Scholtz and Emerson family, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
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.
Related to article, "RULING HITS AT SEWELL: Mrs. Emerson Visits Banned Court Also Orders..." Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 1935: A1.
Judge Lindsey sits down in a chair holding paper while the family stands. A bookshelf with many books is seen to his right. This occasion was most likely to decide the custody of Mrs. Emerson, who later would become Mrs. Sewell who had an affair with Barton Sewell.
Text from negative sleeve: LINDSEY, BEN. JUDGE. (Big written "X")
Handwritten on negative: [L to R] Judge Lindsey, Mrs. Ed. Scholtz, Walter Emerson, Edmund Scholtz, Jane Emerson
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5724
ark:/21198/zz002cvt0f
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Custody of children--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Family--California--Los Angeles
Emerson, Walter, 1923-2011
Lindsey, Ben B., 1869-1943
Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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