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Margaret Fay Desmond, whose husband tried to sue Dr. Eugene Nelson for alienation of affections, Los Angeles, 1933

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Title: Margaret Fay Desmond, whose husband tried to sue Dr. Eugene Nelson for alienation of affections, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: [July 1933]
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.
of Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, was a black physician who first attracted the notice of the press after his marriage to former actress Helen Lee Worthing Nelson.
Reported in the article, "Mrs. Desmond to Aid Nelson: White Woman Tells Love for Colored Physician," 11 Jul. 1933: A1.
Portrait photograph of Margaret Fay Desmond, whose husband, Leo Desmond, tried to sue Dr. Eugene Nelson for alienation of affections.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10653
ark:/21198/zz002hbnvw
Subject: Alienation of affections--California--Los Angeles
Desmond, Margaret Fay, b. 1908 or 09
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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