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Title
Los Angeles County sheriffs with trunk of baby clothes, Oildale, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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.
This photograph appears with the article “Houses on Purported Grave Sites Balk Hunt for Missing Babies, Clews Yielded by Black Trunk, Box in Oildale House Full of Infants’ Clothes, Hypodermic Needle, Girls’ Pictures Also Found, Mrs. Foss to be in Condition for Quizzing Soon.” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1927: A2
Norris Stensland, Eugene Biscailuz, and A.L. Hutchison, all in suits and ties, crouched around open black trunk of baby clothes and blankets, indoors with door in background
Handwritten at edge of negative: Norris Stensland, Gene Biscailuz, A.L. Hutchison, Baby farm
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Biscailuz, Eugene, with Wm. Traeger & Capt. Jewel
Text from newspaper caption: “Baby Farm” Trunk and Contents. Clews to Missing Infants. Deputy Sheriff Stensland with hypodermic needle, Undersheriff Biscailuz and Deputy Sheriff Hutchinson [should read: Hutchison] and trunk of baby clothes.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0999
0999
ark:/21198/zz002dbckn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sheriffs--California--Oildale
Stensland, Norris Gilbert, 1891-1956
Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969
Hutchison, A. L. (Alvin L.), b. 1889 or 90
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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