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Sisters Ella Maria Lengel and Sarah Clark celebrate Lengel's divorce, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Sisters Ella Maria Lengel and Sarah Clark celebrate Lengel's divorce, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 16, 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 Arcadia funds.
Ella Lengel, in a floral blouse, and sister Sarah, wearing a top with a white collar, smile cheerfully off-camera. A grinning man is seen in the distant background. Partly due to Clark's testimony, Lengel succesfully obtained a divorce from her allegedly abusive and philandering husband.
Photograph appears with the article, "Court Cuts Double Ties," Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1935
Text from caption: Sister Aids Woman in Court, In obtaining a divorce yesterday the testimony of Mrs. Ella Maria Lengel, left, was corroborated by her sister, Mrs. Sarah Clark.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2552-- L to R, Ella Maria Lengel (Divorce), Mrs. Sarah Clark (Witness), 10-16-35, Divorce Suit, [Stamped:] OCT 23 1935
Handwritten on nitrate negative: L to R - Ella Maria Lengel, Mrs. Sarah Clark, 10-16-35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9013
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Legal
People
Clark, Sarah, b. ca. 1910
Lengel, Maria Ella, b. ca. 1910
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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