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Title: Iris Ashton testifies in manslaughter case, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935
1935-01
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 appears with the article, "Crash Death Defense Opens Its Fight Today," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan 1935: 17.
Frederick C. Bryan is a young lawyer accused of driving drunk and inadvertently killing his companion Joan Carlson when he collided with a car driven by Iris Ashton at Fifth and New Hampshire streets on May 18th, 1934.
Iris rests one arm on the back of her chair, holding what looks like a rolled up newspaper in her hands.
Text from negative sleeve: Ashton, Iris Actress
Text from newspaper caption: Iris Ashton, who figures in traffic tragedy case.
Handwritten on negative: Iris Ashton
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11141
ark:/21198/zz002h93z8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Gloves
Berets
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Ashton, Iris, 1899-1985
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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