Image / Detective Lieutenant Frank Condaffer with a bedridden Dorothy Mackaye, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Detective Lieutenant Frank Condaffer with a bedridden Dorothy Mackaye, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1927
1927-04
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.
4-year-old Valerie and the Raymonds' maid Charlotte were in the house at the time of the death of Valerie's father Ray Raymond. The girl has not yet been told that her father is dead.
Photograph appears with the article, "Maid Describes Beating," Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr 1927: A2.
Detective Condaffer leans over Dorothy as she lies in bed beneath a comforter.
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Mackaye
Text from newspaper caption: Lose Father and Husband At left is Valerie Raymond, 4 years of age, daughter of musical comedy star who witnessed fight in home and, at right, Mrs. Raymond (Dorothy Mackaye,) answering questions asked by Detective Lieutenant Condaffer.
Text from negative sleeve: MacKaye, Dorothy murder 1927
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6173
ark:/21198/zz002cwbgc
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Beds
Condaffer, Frank, 1887-1969
Mackaye, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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