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Title: Roxana Gloria Spreckels begins divorce proceedings, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1936
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The divorce proceedings have begun for Roxana Spreckels, the wife of wealthy man John D. Spreckels III. She asks $1000 a month in alimony.
Wearing a fur coat and holding her purse under one arm Roxana leans against a railing.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Spreckels Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1936: 3.
Text from negative sleeve: 3527 - Gloria Roxana Spreckels (wife of John D. Spreckels III, sugar industry family, seeking divorce) order to show cause 1-31-36 [stamped:] Feb 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Gloria Roxana Spreckels
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12534
ark:/21198/zz002hmjwj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Fur coats
Purses
Hirtensteine, Roxana Gloria Spreckels, 1911-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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