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Edith Taylor testifies on behalf of her sister Gertrude Duncan, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Edith Taylor testifies on behalf of her sister Gertrude Duncan, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 26, 1935
1935-07-26
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.
Gertrude describes that her husband Harold would not make it home from his job managing the café until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.
Photograph appears with the article, "He Took So Long to Walk Home He Lost His Wife," Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1935: 3.
The sisters sit next to each other wearing similar white hats.
Handwritten on negative: Gertrude Duncan Edith Taylor- 7/26/35
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Gertrude Duncan, right, in court with her sister. Miss Edith Taylor, who corroborated the wife's testimony in divorce suit.
Text from negative sleeve: 1278 - Gertrude Duncan (Divorcee) Edith Taylor (Witness) In Court When Gertrude Duncan received her Divorce 7/26/35 [stamped:] Aug 1- 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7673
ark:/21198/zz002dfdfd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Divorced women
Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Duncan, Gertrude
Taylor, Edith
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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