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. A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Extortion Guilt Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 01 Apr 1936: A3. 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. 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 Handwritten on negative: Laura [illegible] 31/36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13735 ark:/21198/zz002hp0bf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Widows--California--Los Angeles Extortion--California--Los Angeles Vail, Laura Perry, 1889-1966 Hanson, Arthur D., b. 1893
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