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Title: Chief matron Vada Sullivan and some female inmates celebrate Christmas, 1935-1936
Date Created and/or Issued: December-January 1935-1936
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.
Three women gather around the Christmas tree. One woman holds a dress and another holds a doll. Mrs. Sullivan stands behind the woman with the doll, holding clothes.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Jail Life Not So Bad," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan 1936: A3.
Handwritten on negative: Vada Sullivan + gals X mas Tree 12-19-35
Text from negative sleeve: 4072 - Vada Sullivan (chief matron) Oliver Dean Harrington Goodrich Mrs Dorothy Harrington (baby of <-) (in jail on bad check charge) (County Jail Christmas) 12-19-35 [stamped:] Dec (?) (?)
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13077
ark:/21198/zz002hn6m1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Christmas decorations
Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles
Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles
Prison uniforms--California--Los Angeles
Toys
Prisoners--California--Los Angeles
Sullivan, Vada C., b. 1888 or 9
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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