Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This image appears in the photospread, "Emersons Denied Divorce and Custody of Children in Quadrangle Case," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1936: 16 Ralph "Walter" Emerson sits at center and poses for a photograph. He wears a light-colored suit and a dark, patterned tie. He faces slightly left and gazes to the left of the camera. Handwritten on negative: Walter Emerson 40209 Text from newspaper caption: Decision Given in Quadrangle Case Judge Lindsey Yesterday wrote the sequel to the Emerson-Sewell quadrangle love case when he denied Walter and Jane Emerson a divorce and turned their children over to their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Scholtz. The upper picture shows the three children in the custody of their grandparents. Below left to right are: Walter Emerson, Jane Emerson, Leah Sewell and Barton Sewell. [Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1935: 16]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_15091 ark:/21198/zz002j8sxc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Adultery)--California--Los Angeles Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Sewell, Jane N. Scholtz Emerson, 1904-1988 Emerson, Ralph, 1899-1984
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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