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Title: Roxana Spreckels divorces her husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Spreckles Fight Ended," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr 1936: 2.
Roxana Spreckels, nee Brown, has divorced husband John Spreckels and won custody of their baby daughter Elsie. Mr. Spreckels, a man described by his ex-wife as a violent alcoholic, is to pay $600 a month alimony.
Roxana is a woman with short blonde hair, big, light-colored eyes, and painted lips, wearing a fur coat and a small black hat.
Text from negative sleeve: 4829 - Roxana Gloria Brown Spreckels Divorce from sugar heir [stamped:] Apr 15 1936
Handwritten on negative: Roxana Gloria Brown Spreckels
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14070
ark:/21198/zz002j7kqx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Fur coats
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Hirtensteine, Roxana Gloria Spreckels, 1911-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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