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Title: Gloria Graves is dug up from her steel tomb, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: November 22, 1935
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.
19-year-old Gloria Graves has been arrested for violating the city's Marathon ordinance outlawing contests and entertainments involving endurance that might affect participants' health due to locking herself in a steel tomb for the past week at Fifth Street and Vermont Avenue.
Gloria's open coffin rests on solid ground with her still inside of it. A group of men whose faces are cut off by the frame of the photograph surround her coffin. The inside of her coffin is white with a speaker attached to the inside so she could communicate with outsiders and a light bulb so she could see.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Tomb Girl's Bail Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov 1935: 9.
Handwritten on negative: Gloria Graves 11-15-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2861 - Gloria Graves sideshow stunt violating Marathon ordinance Buried Alive gal. Dug up 11-16-35 [stamped:] Nov 22 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9384
ark:/21198/zz002dhffs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sideshows--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Coffins
Graves, Gloria, b. 1915 or 16
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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