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." Handwritten on negative: Clotilde Shirk Text from negative sleeve: 2119, Clotilde Shirk, Norma Talmadge, actress, Norma Talmadge's maid, [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8530 ark:/21198/zz002dgf0m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lifestyle Servants--California--Los Angeles Shirk, Clotilde, 1888-1944 Talmadge, Norma, 1897-1957
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