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 related to "Cameraman's Wife Released Following Slashing of Wrists," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct 1939: A1. Barbara Hunter, also known as Barbara Hunter Dietz, is shown in a room with jail bars to her left. She wears a floppy hat and a herringbone overcoat over a plaid dress. She carries a handkerchief in her right hand and a clutch purse is looped over a left finger while holding her hat with her left hand. Bandages can be seen on her left wrist. She is smiling and looking down and away from the camera. Barbara Hunter was married to the cameraman William Dietz. She was once a secretary for Thomas Edison, and later was a screenwriter and a film editor. She was one of the first 100 women in the US to get a flying license. She attempted suicide in October 1939. Text from negative sleeve: 17538. [stamp] OCT 23 1939. Attempted Suicide. Barbara Hunter Dietz. -once secretary to Thomas Edison - got pilot license - Wife of Cameraman William Dietz. 10-19-39.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14894 ark:/21198/zz002j8k4k
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles Motion picture editors--California--Los Angeles County Secretaries--United States Suicidal behavior--California--Los Angeles Hunter, Barbara, approximately 1899-
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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