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Title
Detective Lieutenant Frank Condaffer with a bedridden Dorothy Mackaye, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
April 1927
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.
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.
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.
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
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Mackaye
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6173
ark:/21198/zz002cwbgc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Beds
Condaffer, Frank, 1887-1969
Mackaye, Dorothy
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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