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Title: Margaret Ainslie finds her coat missing, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1936
1936-04
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.
The doorkeeper of Miss Ainslie's building noticed a couple leaving, the girl wearing a fur coat and the man carrying a cape on his arm, and took down their license plate number.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Dance Costs Valued Coat," Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr 1936: 1.
Margaret stands in front of an open closet holding a clothes hanger.
Handwritten on negative: Margaret Ainslie
Text from negative sleeve: 4753 Miss Margaret Ainslee actress model Robbery Victim - lost fur coat on night out 4-11-36 Apr 14 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13958
ark:/21198/zz002j7fv2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Closets--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Fashion models--California--Los Angeles
Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Ainslie, Margaret, b. 1916 or 17
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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