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Title
Sisters Atela and Carmen Anaza show disgust over being offered pie after they recovered from food poisoning, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
March 2, 1936
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Atela and Carmen Anaza put their hands up, demonstrating a refusal of some remains of a pie due to their former bout of illness.
Photograph appears with the article, "Pie Victims Recovering," Los Angeles Times, 02 Mar 1936: A8.
After consuming week-old pie that had been left unrefrigerated Mrs. Anna Anaza and her two daughters became violently but not life-threateningly ill from food poisoning.
Handwritten on negative: Atela Anaza -24-Carmen Anaza-21- 3/1/36
Text from newspaper caption: No more custard pie at present for these two women, Atela, left, and Carmen Anaza, who were stricken with food poisoning last Saturday. Their mother also became ill but all are now recovering.
Text from negative sleeve: 3874 - Atela Anaza - 24 Carmen Anaza - 21 Poison Victims - ate spoiled custard pie 3/1/36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12906
ark:/21198/zz002hn0qp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles
Pies
Anaza, Atela, b. 1912
Anaza, Carmen, b. 1915
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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