Deputy Marshal Betty Kay Smith demonstrates handling a prisoner, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Deputy Marshal Betty Kay Smith demonstrates handling a prisoner, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: July 17, 1935
Date: 1935-07-17
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The 24-year-old Santa Barbara woman is one of the few woman in the nation to hold such a position.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Deputy Job Given Girl By Marshal," Los Angeles Times, 03 July 1935: A1.
The man faces the bars of a jail cell, Betty holding one of his sleeves with her hand and holding one end of a pair of handcuffs attached to his wrist with the other hand. Her marshal's badge is pinned to the front of her sweater.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1107- Betty Kay Smith First Woman U.S. Marshall 7/2/35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Handwritten on negative: Betty Kay Smith 7/2/35
Text from newspaper caption: FIRST WOMAN DEPUTY MARSHAL Here is Betty Kay Smith, first woman United States Deputy Marshal ever appointed in the Los Angeles district. She is shown demonstrating how she would handle prisoner in her custody.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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