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Buron Fitts' wife Marion and daughter Mary Lou wait while Fitts is tried for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Buron Fitts' wife Marion and daughter Mary Lou wait while Fitts is tried for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January-February 1936
1936-01-02
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.
Mary Lou has one arm around her mother's neck. Mrs. Fitts sits in a chair and has one hand covering Mary Lou's.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts's Trust Deed Note Traced at Perjury Trial," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan 1936: 1.
The financial transactions and real estate deals of District Attorney Fitts are being used in an attempt to substantiate a charge of perjury against him.
Text from negative sleeve: 3634 - Mrs Buron Fitts . + Mary Lou Fitts Box 10 [stamped:] Feb 13 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Daily in attendance at the perjury trial of her husband, Mrs. Buron Fitts is shown in the courtroom yesterday. Accompanying her was the couple's 9-year-old adopted daughter, Mary Lou Fitts, shown with her mother.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Buron Fitts + Mary Lou
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12718
ark:/21198/zz002hms73
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Fitts, Mary Lou Spear, 1926-2008
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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