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Betty Gordon with the will of Hermann H. Strathmann, written on a ladder, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Betty Gordon with the will of Hermann H. Strathmann, written on a ladder, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1934
1934-10
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.
Several months after his death, the wills of Hermann H. Strathmann have been found among his effects written on $1 bills, scraps of paper, a flyleaf of a Bible, and the rung of a stepladder. Some of the wills were discovered to be forgeries by Superior Judge Shinn.
Betty, smiling, peers through two rungs of the stepladder. She holds a pad and pencil against a step.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "New Wills of Cripple Discovered," Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1934: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: GORDON BETTY 7887 - Hermann H. Strathmann Will Case ladder will from Strathman Gordon (neighbor) who took care of cripple (Strathmann) + his wife.
Handwritten on negative: Betty Gordon, + Ladder will
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14621
ark:/21198/zz002j87qj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Wills
Ladders
Gordon, Betty
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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