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Title: Maxine Rosselle goes to court demanding restitution for an injury, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 27, 1936
1936-02-27
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fall On Slippery Floor Told To Jury By Dancer," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb 1936: A13.
Maxine Rosselle was teaching a routine when she slipped on a waxy hotel floor and injured her ankle - as a result, she is asking the hotel for over $15,000 in damages, which the hotel is denying responsibility for.
A well-dressed Maxine Rosselle raises her right hand to be sworn in in court.
Text from negative sleeve: 3535 - Maxine Rosselle (Dancer)
Text from newspaper caption: Maxine Rosselle, dancing instructor, who asks $17,836 for a bump she received when she slipped on an assertedly too waxy floor, in a suit against a hotel company on trial in Superior Court.
Handwritten on negative: Maxine Rosselle
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12572
ark:/21198/zz002hmm65
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actions and defenses--California--Los Angeles
Rosselle, Maxine, b. 1913
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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