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Title: Jane Emerson at her divorce trial, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Jane Emerson (right) sits next to an unidentified men in the courtroom at her divorce trial.
In March, 1936, Jane Emerson divorced her husband, screenwriter and actor Walter Emerson, to marry Barton Sewell, a wealthy yachtsman. The suit resulted in a double divorce for the Emersons and Sewells.
Text from negative sleeve: Emerson, Jane Ree W. J. Gilbert Suzzet Toby 4440 --- double divorce Jane Emerson X Walter Emerson (screenwriter + actor) Leah C. Sewell X Barton Sewell (rich yachtsman) (one being cleaned??) [stamped:] MAR 25 1936
Handwritten on negative: Jane Emerson [illegible]
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13615
ark:/21198/zz002hnv60
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Emerson, Jane N., (Jane Sewell), 1904-1988
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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