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Title: Actress Dorothy Mackaye sentenced to prison, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dorothy Mackaye sits with her legs crossed in a chair. She appears to be wearing a women's prison uniform.
In 1928, Mackaye was sentenced to one-to-three years at San Quentin State Prison.
Text from negative sleeve: MacKaye, Dorothy murder 1927
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6174
ark:/21198/zz002cwbhw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Mackaye, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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