Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph (cropped) appears with the article, "Beauty Ignores Racial Barrier. Ex-Ziegfeld Follies Girl to Cling to Dr. Nelson," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1929: A3. Photograph of Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, a black physician who attracted the notice of the press after his marriage to former actress Helen Lee Worthing Nelson. Text from newspaper caption: Helen Lee Worthing and her husband, Dr. Eugene C. Nelson. Handwritten on negative: Nelson, Dr. Eugene C.
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