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Title: Elsie Gatty divorces her husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 12, 1936
1936-03-12
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.
Elsie complained of neglect from her husband after ten years of marriage. The couple have three children: 9-year-old Alan, 7-year-old Harold and 6-year-old Ronald.
Elsie sits in the witness box.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Gatty Wins Decree," Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 3962- Mrs. Elsie Louise Gatty (wife of round the world flyer, Harold Gatty) Divorce 3-9-36 [stamped:] Mar 12 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Elsie Louise Gatty
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12990
ark:/21198/zz002hn3mk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Divorced women
Gatty, Elsie Louise, b. 1899
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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