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Mary Adele Donovan accompanies her mother Mary Grace Donovan to her divorce proceedings, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Mary Adele Donovan accompanies her mother Mary Grace Donovan to her divorce proceedings, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 17, 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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Long-Wed Pair Part," Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1935: A2.
After more than 25 years of marriage, Grace K. Donovan has divorced her husband and father of their four daughters on the grounds of his mistreatment of her for the past several years.
Mary Adele and Grace stand together, holding their purses.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Grace K. Donovan, right, was accompanied to court by her daughter, Mary Adele Donovan, when she obtained a divorce yesterday after a quarter of a century of married life.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Mary Adele Donovan Mrs Grace K Donovan 7-11-35
Text from negative sleeve: 1143 - Donovan, Mary Adele Donovan, Mrs Grace K. (Divorce) 7- 11 -35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7445
ark:/21198/zz002df4km
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles
Divorced women
Donovan, Mary Grace Kirby, 1889-1978
Donovan, Mary Adele, b. 1913
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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