Ruth Smith, mother of kidnaped baby, San Bernardino or San Francisco, 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- Ruth Smith, mother of kidnaped baby, San Bernardino or San Francisco, 1930
- Date Created
- 1930
- Date
- 1930
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Connected to Los Angeles Times article, July 4, 1930, Fight Made to Win Back Sold Infant, Mother Given Kidnaping Warrant Against Woman Who Bought Baby. San Francisco, July 3. (Exclusive.) … Mrs. Ruth Smith of this city was granted a kidnaping warrant against Mrs. Bertha Higdon … to whom Mrs. Smith asserted she sold her baby on the day of its birth … Mrs. Smith charges Mrs. Higdon bought the child to deceive her husband … A second warrant was issued for Mrs. Higdon’s sister, Miss Gladys Hatfield … Mrs. Smith declared she was misled into believing Miss Hatfield intended adopting the baby legally …
This image is duplicated in filmstrip negative uclamss_1429_2942
Ruth Smith, in dark dress and hat, holding small bottle, seated behind railing between woman and man, man blocking face with hand
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Smith, Ruth, b. 1910 or 11
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Kidnappings--California
People
Crime
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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2941
uclamss_1429_2941 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cm2qj
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .