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Title: Restaurant waiter Hailey E. Howard, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 20, 1936
1936-03-20
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Sempsel's Restaurant, which had locations at 7th and Alvarado and Hill Street downtown, was likely one of the restaurants where Samuel Whittaker and James Fagan Culver met to have meals and discuss the plan to murder his Ethel Whittaker. The Whittakers lived in an apartment on S. Alvarado Street.
Server Hailey E. Howard stands at a counter with a cup of coffee in hand at Sempsel's Restaurant.
Handwritten on negative: Hailey E. Howard 3/20/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4412-- Hailey E. Howard Whittaker murder 3/20/36 [stamped:] MAR 25 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13591
ark:/21198/zz002hntc3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Waiters--California--Los Angeles
Howard, Hailey E
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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