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Title: Dance instructor Marie M. Russell after her divorce, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 25, 1935
1935-12-25
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 former Mrs. Russell smiles into the camera with a hat cocked over her left eye.
Close-up of photograph appears with the article, "Tie Severed For Elopers," Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1935: 9.
Dance instructor Marie M. won a suit of divorce from husband Felix B. Russell, also a dance instructor, after an elopement to Yuma in February of 1935, which proceeded their separation in October, several months later.
Text from negative sleeve: 4285 - Marie M. Russell 12-24-35 Divorce Suit (dance teacher, divorced another)
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Marie M. Russell, who was awarded divorce yesterday.
Handwritten on negative: Marie M. Russell 12-24-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13348
ark:/21198/zz002hnhzj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Portrait photographs
Divorced women
Elopements--California--Los Angeles
Russell, Marie M
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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