Widow Ivy Focher receives a check from Lou Daro, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Widow Ivy Focher receives a check from Lou Daro, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- July 1935
- Date
- 1935-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Daro holds the check in both hands while Mrs. Focher holds one corner of it between her fingers.
William Focher was shot dead by police after they misapprehended him as a hold-up suspect. Even though wrestling promoter Lou Daro was not responsible for Focher's death he gifted Focher's widow with $5000.
Photograph appears with the article, "Daro Deposits $5000 for Focher's Widow," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: 11. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Lou Dar + Mrs Ivy Focher 7-24-35
Text from newspaper caption: The widow of Leo Focher, slain mat fan, is shown here being presented with a check for $5000 by Lou Daro, Olympic promoter.
Text from negative sleeve: 1217 - 8- 9 -35 Lou Daro Mrs Ivy Focher 7-24-35
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Daro, Lou, b. 1884 or 85
Focher, Ivy, b. 1907 or 08 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Checks
Widows
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7553
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002df89d
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .