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Title: Margaret Lowe granted divorce, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 27, 1935
1935-09-27
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.
Sitting in the witness box, Margaret rests her chin in one hand.
After a marriage to husband Edward Lowe for almost four years divorce is granted to Billie on the grounds of desertion.
Photograph appears with the article, "Blues Singer Says Mate Moved Out Before Dawn," Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep 1935: A14.
Text from negative sleeve: 2342 - Margaret Lowe 9-27-35 Divorce radio singer [stamped:] Oct 3- 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Margaret Lowe yesterday won a divorce, testifying her husband, Edward Lowe, moved out of their home at 3 o'clock one morning, explaining he was tired of married life.
Handwritten on negative: Margaret Lowe 9-27-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8767
ark:/21198/zz002dgq52
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Blues singers
Divorced women
Lowe, Margaret (Billie Lowe)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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