Image / Nellie May Madison with her attorney Joseph Ryan, Los Angeles County, 1934

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Title: Nellie May Madison with her attorney Joseph Ryan, Los Angeles County, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1934
1934-03
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.
39-year-old Nellie Madison, on suspicion of fatally shooting husband Eric D. Madison in their Burbank apartment, recounts her three previous marriages.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Madison Defense Called "Perfect''," Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar 1934: A5.
Joseph Ryan rests his eyeglasses and left arm on top of his briefcase. Mrs. Madison looks at him with her hands folded.
Handwritten on negative: A P. PHOTO Mrs. Nellie Madison o Joseph Ryan
Text from negative sleeve: MADISON, NELLIE MURDER CASE
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6193
ark:/21198/zz002cwc56
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Widows
Divorced women
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles County
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles County
Eyeglasses
Ryan, Joseph, 1901-1969
Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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