Image / Roberta K. Hall, Prison poetess pleads guilty, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Roberta K. Hall, Prison poetess pleads guilty, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 8, 1935
1935-10-08
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, “Counterfeiter Sent to Prison,” Los Angeles Times, 08 Oct. 1935: A1.
According to the California, Prison and Correctional Records, Roberta K. Hall was also known by the name of Edith Gatea Lyman.
Text on negative sleeve: 2385-Roberta K. Hall, 10-7-35, Check forgery “poets of San Quentin Prison”.
Newspaper caption: Roberta K. Hall
Handwritten on negative: Roberta K. Hall 10-7-35.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8830
ark:/21198/zz002dgsbm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Prisoners--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Hall, Roberta K. b. 1894
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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