Dance instructor Marie M. Russell after her divorce, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Dance instructor Marie M. Russell after her divorce, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 25, 1935
Date: 1935-12-25
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The former Mrs. Russell smiles into the camera with a hat cocked over her left eye.
Close-up of photograph appears with the article, "Tie Severed For Elopers," Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1935: 9.
Dance instructor Marie M. won a suit of divorce from husband Felix B. Russell, also a dance instructor, after an elopement to Yuma in February of 1935, which proceeded their separation in October, several months later.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4285 - Marie M. Russell 12-24-35 Divorce Suit (dance teacher, divorced another)
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Marie M. Russell, who was awarded divorce yesterday.
Handwritten on negative: Marie M. Russell 12-24-35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs
Names: Russell, Marie M.
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Portrait photographs
Divorced women
Elopements--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13348
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnhzj
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