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. Similar 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 at the bottom of the train platform, the veil of her hat over her face. 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_14722 ark:/21198/zz002j8c6q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Santa Fe Springs Railroad trains--American--California--Santa Fe Springs Fur coats Bouquets Nobility--Russia Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, 1890-1958 Romanov (Dynasty : 1613-1917)
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