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Dr. W. B. Mayo helps keep Bernice Gilliland from getting jailed over a speeding ticket, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Dr. W. B. Mayo helps keep Bernice Gilliland from getting jailed over a speeding ticket, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1926
1926-04
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dr. Mayo has saved Mrs. Gilliland from going to jail after she failed to pay a fine for $15 for speeding in a 20 mph zone. Gilliland claimed to be picking up Dr. Mayo to see patient Julo De Cunrut for her wrist injury. Dr. Mayo showed up to corroborate Mrs. Gilliland's story and pay the $15.
Dr. Mayo and Mrs. Gilliland sit side by side on an outdoor stoop.
Photograph appears with the article, "Good Samaritan Gets Reward," Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr 1926: A10.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. W B Mayo Mrs Bernice Gilliland
Text from newspaper caption: Rescued Just in Time Mrs. Bernice Gilliland and Dr. W. B. Mayo.
Text from negative sleeve: MAYO, W.B.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6262
ark:/21198/zz002cwfjv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Mayo, W.B
Gilliland, Bernice, b. 1901 or 02
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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