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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A small single-story house stretches across the image. It is viewed close-up and at a slight angle from the front. Just left-of-center, a small porch extends towards camera from the front door. A pitched roof caps part of the house. The roof flattens as the house extends out-of-frame at right. A barren lawn stretches in front of the dwelling. This photograph appears with the article, "CHILD-POISONER UNITES PARENTS: Father and Mother to Confer Today on Tot's Future Mrs. Platts Collapses from Strain of Situation Doctors Credit Girl's Story Despite Denials," Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb. 1925: A1 This photograph appears in the photo spread titled, "Confessed Slayer and Four of Intended Victims," Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb. 1925: A1 Handwritten on negative: Platts house Alsa Thompson case Text from negative sleeve: THOMPSON, ASA [sic] CCASE [sic] 1925 [handwritten:] Alsa Text from newspaper caption, Home Where Poison Meals Were Served Alsa Thompson, 7-year-old confessed poisoner, is shown in the top center photograph. At upper left is Maxine Thompson, slightly poisoned last Sunday and whole life Also is declared to have sought by slashing her with a razor blade. Upper right picture is of Lorraine Platts, another intended victim of a poisoned meal. In the center of the group are Mrs. Jess Platts and Alsa's little sister Maxine. The lower pictures show the Platts home where Alsa was living and Williams Kearns, of of the victims of food poisoned by Alsa. [Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer] [Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb. 1925: A1
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3774 ark:/21198/zz002cpfhn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Thompson, Alsa, 1917-1994
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