Image / Chief jail matron Vada Sullivan weighing incarcerated women, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Chief jail matron Vada Sullivan weighing incarcerated women, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 12, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Vada Sullivan, right, stands beside a scale while a queue of women wait to get weighed.
Handwritten on negative: L to R - Vada Sullivan and girl prisoners 9-12-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2237--- Vada Sullivan & girl prisoners 9-12-35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8665
ark:/21198/zz002dgknc
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Jails--California--Los Angeles
Prisoners--California--Los Angeles
Sullivan, Vada C., b. 1888 or 9
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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