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Title
Clifton H. Jack and Judge John J. Marquette with a gigantic stack of tax documents, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
May 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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Huntington Tax Refund Trial Proves Lengthy," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1935: A2.
In two or three months the hearing of the petition of the estate of the late Henry Huntington for a refund of $2,000,000 of the $6,530,174.86 paid in Federal and State estate taxes should be settled with help from some members of the Federal Board of Tax Appeals.
Marquette sits at a desk examining a book and Jack stands beside a towering stack of papers strung together that is taller than Marquette's head.
Handwritten on negative: Judge John J. Marquette C. H. Jack
Text from newspaper caption: For eight months the trial of $6,500,000 estate tax paid by the late Henry Huntington has been under way here. And the end yet isn't in sight. Clifton H. Jack, clerk of the Federal Board of Tax Appeals, is shown locating evidence for Judge John J. Marquette.
Text from negative sleeve: MARQUETTE, JOHN J. JUDGE
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6238
ark:/21198/zz002cwdqz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clerks
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Taxes--California--Los Angeles
Jack, Clifton H
Marquette, John J
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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