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Title: Aileen Adams is escorted into a car, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1920-1939]
1920/1939
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.
Aileen is spelled as "Eileen" on the negative and negative sleeve but as "Aileen" in various Los Angeles Times articles.
Aileen Adams and another woman are being escorted into a car by an unidentified man. Aileen's profile faces the camera and she is smiling. She is wearing a textured hat and a long coat with dark fur trim.
Aileen McCarthy Adams married Morgan Adams, president of Mortgage Guarantee Company, on February 15, 1915. A UCLA graduate and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority member, she was well known in local society. Aileen filed for divorce in 1922 and remarried in 1925 to Alexander MacDonald.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Eileen Adams
Text from negative sleeve: ADAMS, MORGAN MRS. EILEEN, [handwritten:] Society (one or more being cleaned) Box 18
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11054
ark:/21198/zz002h90zt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Women--California--Los Angeles
Adams, Aileen, 1893-1978
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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