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Title: Madam Nan Kee alleges so-called agent of fraud, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 8, 1935
1935-08-08
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.
Madam Kee looks into the camera with her pen poised over a document.
Photograph appears with the article, "Agent Faces New Charge," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: 15.
Madam Kee has named ex-convict and proprietor of a Hollywood writers' agency Earl W. Taylor for taking various sums of money from her with the fraudulent promise that he would be adapting one of her stories for the screen.
Handwritten on negative: Mme Nan Kee, authoress 7-24-35
Text from newspaper caption: Mme. Nan Kee, who charges writers' agent with defrauding her of $90.
Text from negative sleeve: 1330 - Leonard Hussar 7/29/35 Deputy City Attorney [stamped:] Aug 8_1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7807
ark:/21198/zz002dfk24
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Authors--American--California--Los Angeles
Kee, Nan, Madam
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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