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. Two men and three women are being held in custody on the grounds of accusations of 17-year-old Marie Birchfield that she and other young women had been held against her will and forced to have sex with men in a house at 1320 North Harper Street. Further investigation by officers led to arrests at 8704 1/2 Bandera Street. Photograph appears with the article, "Five Seized In Girl Case," Los Angeles Times, 07 Dec 1935: A3. Olin and Carl stand handcuffed to one another. Olin covers his face with his right hand. Carl places his hand on one hip, looking down at the floor. Handwritten on negative: L tR - Olin and Carl Whitaker Text from newspaper caption: Handcuffed to each other, Olin and Carl Whitaker, brothers, were held yesterday as suspects in an asserted white slave ring. Text from negative sleeve: 4082 - L t R Olin Whitaker Carl Whitaker 12- 6- 35 White slave case - brothers placing girls in disorderly house [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13097 ark:/21198/zz002hn79v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Prostitution--California--Los Angeles Brothers--American--California--Los Angeles Rapes--California--Los Angeles Whitaker, Carl Whitaker, Olin
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