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, "Exiled Russian Duchess Guarded After Red Threats," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan 1939: 1. Grand Duchess Marie, cousin of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, has arrived in Los Angeles County on a lecture tour and is to be surrounded by an armed police guard due to many threatening letters she has received from Communists. The Duchess holds a large bouquet in her arms, standing on a stool at the bottom of the train platform. A railroad employee is seen behind the car. Text from newspaper caption: Grand Duchess Marie of Russia shown as she arrived in Southland yesterday. A member of the vanishing House of Romanoffs, she now is an exile from her native land. Text from negative sleeve: 15294 Grand Duchess Marie of Russia TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 1-10-39 [stamped:] Jan 18 1939 Handwritten on negative: Grand Duchess Marie 1-10-39
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14721 ark:/21198/zz002j8c56
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Santa Fe Springs Bouquets Railroad trains--American--California--Santa Fe Springs Fur coats Nobility--Russia Romanov (Dynasty : 1613-1917) Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, 1890-1958
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