Image / Mrs. Mamita Coleman Hayes Formes, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Mrs. Mamita Coleman Hayes Formes, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1932-1936]
1932/1936
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Possibly related to the article, "Jail match annulment suit filed," Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 1936: A3.
Mamita Hayes married Herbert Formes on October 26, 1932 while he was imprisoned at the Los Angeles County Jail (and on route to San Quentin Penitentiary). Hayes filed a petition for annulment in November 1932, a suit was later filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in February 1936.
Text from negative sleeve: 4837- Mrs. Mamita Coleman Hayes Formes (Formes) / dancer / Divorce / [stamped:] Apr 15
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Mamita C. Hayes Formes
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14077
ark:/21198/zz002j7kzj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Portrait photographs
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Hayes, Mamita C. (Mamita Coleman) b. circa 1904
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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