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Title: Roberta Semple boards looks for a potential mate, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1935
1935-07
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.
Roberta waves as she's about to step onto a bus, a driver standing off to her right.
Roberta Semple is to travel to the Ozarks to "live the simple life" and find a potential mate.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Ozark Hill Billy, He's a-Lookin' fer Roberta," Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1935: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Roberta Semple
Text from negative sleeve: 1115 - Roberta Semple (Evangelist) Leaving for Ozarks 7/5/35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7429
ark:/21198/zz002df41b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Evangelists
Bus travel--California--Los Angeles
Salter, Roberta Semple, 1910-2007
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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