Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Tougher penalties for drunken and reckless drivers are to start being enforced in California. 232 drivers were brought into Municipal Judge Scott's court for traffic citations, 26 of whom chose to serve jail time in lieu of paying fines. Charles H. Holmes was sentenced for colliding with the back of a vehicle driven by Laura de la Puente. Photograph appears with the article, "Law Grips at Drivers," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep 1935: A1. A smiling Laura poses, wearing a large sunhat. Text from negative sleeve: 2233 - Laura de la Puente Peruvian film dancer accident witness 9-13-35 [stamped:] Sep Handwritten on negative: Laura de la Puente 9-13-35 Text from newspaper caption: Laura de la Puente
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8660 ark:/21198/zz002dgkgs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Portrait photographs Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Dancers--Peruvian--California--Los Angeles Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles De la Puente, Laura (Maria Laura La Puente), b. 1905
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