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Lillian Mildred Rice holds up a piece of broken furniture, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Lillian Mildred Rice holds up a piece of broken furniture, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 4, 1935
1935-10-04
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.
Lillian Mildred Rice holds up a piece of broken furniture (possibly a ripped up bench with legs removed.) In court a few days later, she accused her estranged husband, Ray T. Rice, of destroying her furniture and was granted a divorce.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Owner Views Damage to Furniture: Woman Returns Home to Find it Shambles," Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Lillian Mildred Rice 10-4-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2485- Mrs. Lillian Mildred Rice. Divorcee finds furniture wrecked. 10-4-35. [Stamped:] Oct...
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8938
ark:/21198/zz002dgx2d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Vandalism--California--Los Angeles
Rice, Lillian Mildred
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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