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, "W.P.A. Worker Rated Millionaire by Oil Find," Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar 1936: 1. James R. Willis and his wife used to just get by through his W.P.A.-paid salary of $80 a month, but since his father Dr. T. J. Willis' murder by a tramp he has inherited 3800 acres of land and a share of a $10,000,000 estate in Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Willis stand side by side with their hands clasped together. Text from newspaper caption: Mr. and Mrs. James Roy Willis have been married seven years and have been skimping along on $80 a month from a W.P.A. job. They now agree on one thing: They're going to have some fun on their share of a $10,000,000 estate left by Willis's father in the form of swampland which turned to oil land. Text from negative sleeve: 3965 - James Roy Willis + wife (WPA job then get inheritance of swampland turned to oil land) Inherits Large Estate 3/14/36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936 Handwritten on negative: Mr + Mrs James Roy Willis 3/14/36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12993 ark:/21198/zz002hn3q4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Millionaires--California--Los Angeles Inheritance & succession Willis, James Roy, 1890-1966 Willis, James Roy, Mrs
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