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Linda Lee Baker with her grandmother, Sister Ruth Lewis, at Northridge Hospital after the 9-year-old suffered burns from a bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958

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Title: Linda Lee Baker with her grandmother, Sister Ruth Lewis, at Northridge Hospital after the 9-year-old suffered burns from a bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958
Date Created and/or Issued: December 11, 1958
1958-12-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
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
Description: Image that accompanies captions in print is 114115k-2, which has not been scanned as of October 16, 2008.
Photo by Fred Tschantre
Headquarters, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bombed by twp former sect members, killing 11.
Daily Mirror caption: SUFFERING - Sister Ruth Lewis holds grand-daughter Linda Lee, her face reflecting the pain of burns. Both hands are bandaged, her hair singed.
LA Times caption: BURN VICTIM - Sister Ruth Lewis comforts her granddaughter, Linda Lee Baker, 9, at Northridge Hospital. Girl's father and 7-year-old sister Keela were among the ten who died in the blast.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b367_114115k-1
ark:/21198/zz001408cx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Burns & scalds
Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles County
People
Disaster
Bombings--California
Cults--California--Ventura County
Victims of Crimes--California--Ventura County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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