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Title: Deveda Smith divorces her abusive husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 9, 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.
Mrs. Deveda Smith was awarded divorce from husband Francis H. Smith and custody of their five-month-old son William after testifying of his verbal abuse, violence and alcoholism.
Photograph appears with the article, "Drink Leads To Divorce," Los Angeles Times, 09 Apr 1936: 9.
Handwritten on negative: Deveda Smith 4/8/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4693 - Deveda Smith Divorce 4/8/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Devada Smith, who was awarded divorce yesterday.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13891
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Abused women--California--Los Angeles
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Divorced women
Smith, Deveda
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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