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Title: Jane Barneberg returns from Hawaii to claim her inheritance, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 15, 1936
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.
While working in Hawaii as a singer and dancer Jane was alerted that she had inherited a fortune of at least six figures from her grandmother, prompting her to return to Los Angeles with her mother, Ruby Barneberg.
Photograph appears with the article, "Dancing Heiress Sticks to Stage Career," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb 1936: A1.
A smiling Jane sits atop a large suitcase with her legs crossed.
Text from newspaper caption: Jane Barneberg
Handwritten on negative: Jane Johns song & dance inherits fortune Feb 16, 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14976
ark:/21198/zz002j8nzz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Luggage
Inheritance & succession
Barneberg, Jane (Jane Johns), 1917-2007
Lurline (Ship)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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