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Marion Cooper aka "Geneva Albitz" is jailed for fraudulent checks, Los Angeles, 1923

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Title: Marion Cooper aka "Geneva Albitz" is jailed for fraudulent checks, Los Angeles, 1923
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1923
1923-02
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.
Marion Cooper, also known as Geneva Albitz, has been arrested and sentenced to jail time for passing four worthless checks.
Marion wears a derby hat with a coat of zigzag patterns.
Photograph appears with the article, "Girl, Bondsman Friend In Jail," Los Angeles Times, 04 Mar 1923: I11 and the article, "Girl Seized As Check Artist," Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb 1923: II1.
Handwritten on negative: Alias Marion Cooper Geneva Albitz
Text from negative sleeve: ALBITZ, GENEVA (ALIAS, MARION COOPER) FORGERY CASE
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11070
ark:/21198/zz002h91hk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swindlers--California--Los Angeles
Checks
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Cooper, Marion
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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