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Title: Irene Presniakoff divorces long lost husband, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935
1935-01
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Irene Presniakoff has just found out that her husband Ygor Presniakoff, who she presumed to be dead for the past five years, has been reported alive and living in New York. So Irene appeared before a judge to divorce.
Photograph appears with the article, "Divorce Action Pressed As Wife Finds Mate Alive," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan 1935: A8.
Handwritten on negative: Irene Presniakoff
Text from negative sleeve: PRESNIAKOFF, IRENE ACTRESS, 1927
Text from newspaper caption: Irene Presniakoff, who long thought her husband was dead.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7249
ark:/21198/zz002cxmk7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorced women
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Presniakoff, Irene, b. 1900
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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