Image / Mildred Meyer Hymer, actress, and her son Richard Meyer, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Mildred Meyer Hymer, actress, and her son Richard Meyer, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 21, 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 Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, “Child won by actress: custody of son lost in divorce regained in brief hearing,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 1936: A1.
Photograph of actress Mildred Meyer Hymer holding her son Richard Meyer. Mildred has her arms around Richard’s waist and is smiling, while Richard is touching Mildred’s cheek.
Text from negative sleeve: 4464—Virginia Meyer Hymer (actress) + Richard Meyer (son), Child Custody (see other Hymer neg.) [Stamped:] MAR 26 1936
Handwritten on negative: Virginia Meyer Hymer + Richard Meyer.
Text from newspaper caption: Mildred Meyer Hymer, screen actress and wife of Warren Hymer, actor, in court yesterday with son by former marriage, Richard Meyer, 4 years of age, after regaining child’s custody.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13639
ark:/21198/zz002hnw1w
Subject: Custody of children--California--Los Angeles
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California
Children--California--Los Angeles
Hymer, Mildred Meyer, b. 1917
Meyer, Richard, b. 1932
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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