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Title: Claude Peters discovers evidence in the Thelma Todd case, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 31, 1935
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 grand juror for the first time is taking into serious consideration that late actress Thelma Todd may have taken her own life. Special agent Claude Peters of the telephone company produced documents regarding the mysterious phone call Todd made from the Trocadero to New York in the last hours of her life.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Todd Death Night Phone Call Traced," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: 1.
Peters stands alone in a hallway looking into the distance.
Handwritten on negative: Claud Peters 12-27-35 Chief Special Agent of Telephone Co.
Text from negative sleeve: 4287 - Claud Peters Chief Special Agent of Telephone Co. 12-27-35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13350
ark:/21198/zz002hnj12
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles
Peters, Claude P., 1894-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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