Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Quigley is the only female professional examiner of documents in the country and has assisted with many cases of forgery in India not just in handwriting but also faux photography. She will be spending time in Calcutta studying Tamil, Gujerati, Hindu and Bengali under a world-famous handwriting expert. Miss Quigley holds up a document with handwriting in an unidentified language. Photograph appears with the article, "War Waged On Forgers," Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep 1935: A2. Text from negative sleeve: 1990 - Marjorie Quigley Handwriting Expert going to India 9-5-35 [stamped:] Sep 7- 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Miss Marjorie Quigley of Los Angeles, believed to be the only woman professional examiner of questioned documents in the United States, who sails for India today to study native languages. She has been assigned to determine whether these Gujarati signatures are genuine. Handwritten on negative: Marjorie Quigley- handwriting expert 9-5-35
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