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Title: Rose Thomas, arrested for stealing rose plants, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 14, 1935
1935-08-15
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.
Photograph was published along with an article in Los Angeles Times. Refer to: "Name-Flower Her Passion," Los Angeles Times, Aug 15, 1935: 16
Portrait of Mrs. Rose Thomas, 81, at the courthouse. Mrs. Thomas was arrested stealing two potted rose bushes away from Lands Nursery on S. Cochran Street. While leaving the courthouse, she remarked to the judge that she loves roses - possibly her motive for the theft.
Text from negative sleeve: 1647 0 Aug 22 1935, Rose Thomas, Rose Theft, 8-14-35
Handwritten on negative: [to the right] Rose Thomas
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9996
ark:/21198/zz002dj5jx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Thomas, Rose, b. 1853 or 54
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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