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Max Factor using the telephone after his wife's car accident, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Max Factor using the telephone after his wife's car accident, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February-March 1936
1936-02-03
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.
Max Factor leans across a desk as he uses the telephone.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Crash Hurts Mrs. Factor," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb 1936: A1.
Mrs. Max Factor has been critically injured after a car crash at Ninth and Vermont streets that left two people dead, 75-year-old George N. Hunter of Oklahoma and 52-year-old Herbert Donville of 726 South Spring Street.
Text from negative sleeve: 3549 - Mrs. Max Factor Mrs Rose Gurowitz (friend) } deselected Frank Factor (at Georgia St station 2/20/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Frank Factor
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12608
ark:/21198/zz002hmnf8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telephones
Factor, Max, 1904-1996
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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