Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of Clotilde Shirk standing in front of a door in collard dress, shoes, holding a long apparatus in left hand, holding door open with right hand. Photo is probably related to the article, “Talmadge Bandit Hunted as Identity Clews Found.” Los Angeles Times, 3 Sept. 1935. Article reports the bandit "entered the home of Miss Talmadge posing as a florist shop deliveryman, dropped a flower box which concealed a revolver in his hands, when a maid, Clotilde Shirk, answered the door. As he pressed the revolver against the maid, Miss Talmadge heard the scuffle and entered the room. Her screams frightened the bandit." Text from negative sleeve: 2119, Clotilde Shirk, Norma Talmadge, actress, Norma Talmadge's maid, [stamped:] Sep 18 1935 Handwritten on negative: Clotilde Shirk
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8530 ark:/21198/zz002dgf0m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Servants--California--Los Angeles Lifestyle Talmadge, Norma, 1897-1957 Shirk, Clotilde, 1888-1944
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