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Title
Kidnapping victim Eveline Balfour, [1920-1923?], [rephotographed 1924]
Date Created and/or Issued
1924
[1920-1923?]
1920/1923
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
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article “Miss Balfour is Found; Gangsters Are Hunted, Diva’s Daughter Wandering Half-Clothed and Drugged on Street; Police Scour City for Kidnapers.” Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 1924: 1. The article states: Drugged with veronal and with her mind apparently unbalanced by a terrible experience, Miss Evaline Balfour, pretty 16-year-old daughter of Mme. Constance Balfour, the famous singer, was found wandering about half-clothed last night …She had been missing since Thursday. …
Eveline Balfour, about age 13-16, in dark dress, smiling, leaning on carved urn with lions at base, with carved pillar, wall, and trees in background
Photograph of print
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Balfour, Evaline
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0959
uclamss_1429_0959
ark:/21198/zz002dbb6g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Debottis, Yvonne Eveline Balfour Gaudet Barishaw, 1907-1993
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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