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Title: Laura Perry Vail escorted by agent Arthur D. Hanson, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 31, 1936
1936-03-31
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.
Agent Hanson, left, stands with his back to the camera, facing Laura Perry Vail as they stand in front of the elevator in a lobby. An unidentified man stands to their right.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Extortion Guilt Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 01 Apr 1936: A3.
Handwritten on negative: Laura [illegible] 31/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4542 - Laura Perry Vail w/Dept. of Justice agent (widow of William Banning Vail, pioneer rancher) Truman S. (Steel) F. George (Arkansas handyman at Vail home) Extortion 3/31/36 [stamped:] Apr 1- 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13735
ark:/21198/zz002hp0bf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Extortion--California--Los Angeles
Widows--California--Los Angeles
Hanson, Arthur D., b. 1893
Vail, Laura Perry, 1889-1966
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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