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. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Tomb Girl's Bail Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov 1935: 9. A group of men surround Gloria, who lies on a cot beside her empty coffin covered by a blanket. Text from negative sleeve: 2861 - Gloria Graves sideshow stunt violating Marathon ordinance Buried Alive gal. Dug up 11-16-35 [stamped:] Nov 22 1935 Handwritten on negative: Gloria Graves 11-15-35
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9386 ark:/21198/zz002dhfht
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No linguistic content
Subject
Coffins Gravedigging--California--Los Angeles Sideshows--California--Los Angeles Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Graves, Gloria, b. 1915 or 16
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