District Attorney David L'Esperance and Dorothy Dunbar Wells, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: District Attorney David L'Esperance and Dorothy Dunbar Wells, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: January 29, 1936
Date: 1936-01-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Former wife of boxer Max Baer is taking Jerry Miley to court with the help of district attorney L'Esperance on charges of grand theft.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Oil Venture Bilking Told," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1936: A2.
D.A. L'Esperance sits beside Dorothy at a desk strewn with papers, rulers, a sleeve of matches and a box of Camel cigarettes.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3349 - Dorothy Dunbar Wells David L'Esperance Dep. DA Max Baer x wife (actor) 1-23-36 [stamped:] Jan 29 1936
Handwritten on negative: L2R Dep D. A David L'Esperance + Dorothy Dunbar Wells 1-23-36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Dunbar, Dorothy 1902-1992
L' Esperance, David, 1874-1942
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Crimes--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12341
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8chz
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Rights Country: US
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