Dr. John E. Cummings is accused of manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Dr. John E. Cummings is accused of manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- April 7, 1936
- Date
- 1936-04-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Dr. Cummings sits by himself, completely obscuring his face with a handkerchief.
Dr. Cummings of 599 Cypress Street was charged with manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Helen V. Lane on April 2nd for performing an illegal operation. The article does not mention the nature of the operation.
Article related to the photograph, "Doctor Accused in Fatal Case," Los Angeles Times, 08 Apr 1936: 4. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 4703 - Dr. John E Cummings H.? abortionist ? <- (is that a question mark?) 4/7/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Handwritten on negative: Dr. John E Cummings 4/7/36
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Cummings, John Elwin, 1902-1961
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13896
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7cq1
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .