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Edith and Renee Chapman, who received substantial injuries in a car crash, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Edith and Renee Chapman, who received substantial injuries in a car crash, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 3, 1935
1935-10-03
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.
The Chapman sisters' were riding in a car struck by Chandler House last December, which has caused them both to lose the ability to dance and prompted a suit for $11,000 in damages.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Dancer Asks Crash Cash," Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 1935: 3.
Edith and Renee stand together with their arms around each others' waists.
Text from negative sleeve: 2491 - L to R Edith Chapman Renee Chapman (sister dance team) accident Suit 10-3-35 [stamped:] Oct 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: LtoR - Edith Chapman - Renee Chapman - 10-3-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8946
ark:/21198/zz002dgxbj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Chapman, Edith
Chapman, Renee
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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