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Lillian L. Smith, at the Lincoln Heights jail, demonstrates her past misbehavior, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Lillian L. Smith, at the Lincoln Heights jail, demonstrates her past misbehavior, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 4, 1935
1935-09-04
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.
Lillian Smith was an actress performing in musical reviews in the 1920s and 1930s.
Photograph of Lillian L. Smith (also known as Lucille Stedman in 5 newspaper articles about her misbehavior), holding an Underwood typewriter at the Lincoln Heights jail as a policeman makes sure she does not throw it again (as she had the day before, when she was arrested). The jail building is located at 421 North Avenue 19.
Related to the article, "Her Anger Scene Re-enacted: Jailed Actress Blames Ex-Husband For Plight," Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 1935: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: 1692. Lucille Steadman [sic]. Actress. 9/8/35. [stamped:] Sep 22 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10051
ark:/21198/zz002ddt1j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Jails--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Lillian L., b. 1909 or 10
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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