Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
4 images. Burglar beats housewife, 26 April 1954. Mrs. Edna Jacobsen -- 43 years (beaten by burglar at home at 5312 Arbor Vitae Street Westchester). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1954-04-26. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Burglar beats housewife. #45-46: Mrs. Edna Jacobsen, 43, of 5312 Arbor Vitae Street, Westchester, explains how a burglar beat her with a high heel shoe when she surprised him ransacking her home early this afternoon. She is pictured at the Airport Medical Center where she was treated for lacerations of the head. Scrappy Mrs. Jacobsen caused the burglar to drop her wallet in the house before he fled. #47-48: Mrs. Edna Jacobsen at hospital".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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