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Title: Charles Kemp holds a frame with a historic locket, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [February 21, 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 history of the locket's ownership is traced as such: after Washington's death it was given to Col. Tonsard. In 1916 it was given to Maud Yoder by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stocker - Mrs. Stocker's maiden name was Clara Baldwin, daughter of E.J. Baldwin. Col. Tonsard is assumed to be an ancestor of Stocker's mother, who was a friend of Maud Yoder.
Kemp holds up a small picture frame holding a oval-shaped locket with an inscription written on it.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Hair From Head of Washington Owned Here," Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb 1936: A3.
Text from negative sleeve: 3767 - Chas A. Kemp + Geo Washington's Hair 2-19-36 [stamped:] Feb 21 1936
Handwritten on negative: Chas. A. Kemp 2-19-36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12820
ark:/21198/zz002hmwr9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lockets
Portrait photographs
Kemp, Charles A., b. 1889
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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