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Josephine Mendes, recently divorced actress, measuring her small feet with a ruler, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Josephine Mendes, recently divorced actress, measuring her small feet with a ruler, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 18, 1935
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.
This photograph appears with the article, “Cinderella Film Girl Freed: DECEPTION TALE WINS ACTRESS ANNULMENT,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 1935: A3.
Photograph of Josephine Mendes sitting on a table measuring her feet with a ruler. There is a typewriter and some boxes in the background.
Text from negative sleeve: 2174-Josephine Mendes, actress, smallest feet, Divorce, 9-17-35, [Stamped:] Sep 19, 1935.
Newspaper caption: Josephine Mendes, claimant of Hollywood’s smallest feet, is shown here as she appeared in court yesterday to win annulment of her marriage to Joseph Y. Fernandez, with who she eloped to Mexico last March. Her shoes are size 1 B width.
Handwritten on negative: Josephine Mendes, 9-17-35.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8632
ark:/21198/zz002dgjht
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Mendes, Josephine
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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