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. This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 7, 1933, Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes Note with partial ransom instructions, created with cut-out words and letters, held by 2 gloved hands on wooden background, reading: walk TO YOUR LEFT ACROSS STREET to Bank Here Will be A BOX IN HOLE IN Bank With FINAL Instruction We like tricks...but we prefer to keep them out of business. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?] Text from newspaper caption: The note which gave the instructions to cross the street to the bank.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0240 ark:/21198/zz002d9gd2
Language
English
Subject
Crime People Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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