Portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928
- Date Created
- 1928
- Date
- 1928
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This is a portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, both of whom testified at the William E. Hickman kidnapping trial in 1928. Both Western Union employees, Helen Seelye identified one of the two telegrams sent to Marion Parker's father; and Ina Branson identified Hickman as the man who sent the kidnap telegrams.
Refer to Newspaper article [for Helen Seelye]: "Hickman Trial in Final Stage." Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb 8 1928: A1;[for Ina Branson]: "Family Stands by Girl Slayer." Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan 1928: A1
William E. Hickman was a 20-year old man who was executed on October 19 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs - Names
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Seelye, Helen
Branson, Ina - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9501
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhkg7
- Manifest url
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 .