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Barton Sewell, attorney W. I. Gilbert, and Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Barton Sewell, attorney W. I. Gilbert, and Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa February 27, 1935]
1935-02-27
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.
Walter Emerson sued his wife Jane Scholtz Emerson for divorce, regarding her affair with Barton Sewell. Jane N. Scholtz Emerson countersued her husband regarding his affair with Leah Clampitt Sewell. An alleged spouse swapping occurred in November 1934.
Related to several articles in the Los Angeles Times between January and April 1935 regarding the quadrangle divorce trial.
Left to right, Barton Sewell, W. I. Gilbert, and Jane N. Scholtz Emerson. Gilbert and Emerson are leaning towards each other to talk quietly. They are in a courtroom, and seated behind a table.
Handwritten on envelope: Emerson, Jane N. 4440 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Jane Emerson, Atty W. [illegible] Gilbert, Barton Sewell
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13618
ark:/21198/zz002hnv9j
Subject: Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Adultery)--California--Los Angeles
Sewell, Barton, 1905-1953
Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988
Gilbert, W. I. (William I.), 1876-1940
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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