Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Joan sits beside a typewriter, hiding her face with her hand. A woman whose face is cut off by the camera frame, presumably her mother, stands beside her. Photograph appears with the article, "Matrimony Fraud Laid to Woman and Daughter," Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1935: A1. Mother and daughter Mrs. and Miss Joan Claudette of 1429 West Thirty-ninth street have been taken into police custody on the grounds of mail fraud, reportedly writing to men throughout the east and Midwest pretending to be an underprivileged girl with an abusive aunt. Handwritten on negative: Miss Joan Claudette 7/19/35 Text from newspaper caption: Miss Joan Claudette, at left, and her mother, Mrs. Joan Claudette, booked on suspicion of using the mails to defraud in connection with what authorities describe as a matrimonial fraud with eastern and midwestern bachelors as their victims. Text from negative sleeve: 1339 - Mrs. Joan Claudette + Daughter Miss Joan Claudette who were arrested for running a Matrimony Bureau Racket 7/19/35 [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7813 ark:/21198/zz002dfk87
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Mothers--California--Los Angeles Typewriters Fraud--California--Los Angeles Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles Claudette, Joan, b. 1894 or 95 Claudette, Joan, b. 1912 or 13
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