Image / Barbara Hallam Clampitt, formerly Mrs. Barbara Clampitt Morrison, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Barbara Hallam Clampitt, formerly Mrs. Barbara Clampitt Morrison, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 15, 1936
1936-04-15
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Wife Divorces Morrison; Gets $100 for Son's Care," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr 1936: A3.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison were married on September 12, 1933, and separated on February 26 of this year. Superior Judge Baird granted $100 a month for their 2-year-old son Edward Louis in lieu of the $1,000,000 trust fund Clampitt originally demanded.
Text from negative sleeve: 4839 - Mrs Barbara Clampitt Morrison (oil heiress) Divorce [stamped:] Apr 15 1936
Text from newspaper caption: When a polo player snubs his oil heiress-wife's friends, that is grounds for divorce. At least a Superior Court judge ruled so yesterday in giving Mrs. Barbara Clampitt Morrison (above) freedom from Morrison Morrison.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Barbara Clampitt Morrison
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14080
ark:/21198/zz002j7m2k
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Inheritance & succession
Portrait photographs
Divorced women
Fur coats
Clampitt, Barbara Hallam, 1911-1984
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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