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Description
8 images. Parents sold daughter, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Haynes Frances Haynes -- 3 years Jackie Crowder (Juvenile Police Matron) Mrs. Roy Coley. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: McCarty. Date: 01-28. Reporter: Scott. Assignment: Lakewood child 'sale'. 45-48: Mrs. Roy (Velda) Coley, 28, holds baby pix & birth registration of Frances Haynes, 3." Other caption slip reads: "Photographer: Emery. Date: 1953-01-25. Reporter: Emery to Fiske. Assignment: Baby 'sale' investigation. 84-85: One of these pix shows Mrs. Gladys Eden, 28 yrs. of 336 E. 19th Street, Apt. C, Long Beach, talking to LB Juvenile Officer Wm. Daugherty, one of investigators of case. Other shot shows parents and their baby cheek to cheek & weeping. 'We didn't know what we were doing', mother said. Parents are Charles B. and Viola Haynes, 1771 Cherry Ave., Long Beach. (Reunion was brief. Baby was booked for night and parents released pending invest.)" Supplementary material reads: "Chernus -- Long Beach. Captions. Two neg. show Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Haynes, shown re-united with daughter in Long Beach Juvenile Hall. Daughter is Frances Haynes, 2 (?). One neg. shows Frances rushing toward parents Viola and Charles Haynes in Juvenile Hall. One neg. shows Mrs. Viola Haynes putting show [sic] on Frances while husband looks on. One neg. shows Juvenile Police Matron Jackie Crowder taking Frances away from parents in juvenile hall."-
Type
image
Format
8 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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