Mrs. Ruth Anna Toms, widow of murder victim C. Ivy Toms, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Mrs. Ruth Anna Toms, widow of murder victim C. Ivy Toms, Los Angeles, 1928
- Date Created
- February, 1928
- Date
- 1928-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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C. Ivy Toms, late husband of Ruth Anna Toms, was murdered by William Edward Hickman and Welby Hunt on December 24, 1926. Mrs. Toms provided a detailed witness testimony of the murder on February 21, 1928 when Hickman and Hunt were on trial.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Will Link Up Oral Evidence," Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb 1928: A2. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Ruth Toms
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Toms, Ruth Anna
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Widows--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9469
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhjc6
- 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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .