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Shirley Marie Johnson and Donna Lee Johnson sit on their mother’s lap, upset over the loss of their father, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Shirley Marie Johnson and Donna Lee Johnson sit on their mother’s lap, upset over the loss of their father, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 19, 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
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.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE FEAR OUT BREAK: W.P.A. Projects Guarded Precautions Also Taken for Today’s Inquest Into Slaying of Six,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 1935: A2.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “MASSACRE HEARING SET: Death Charges Lodged Inquest Will Be Conducted Tomorrow in Slaying of Five on W.P.A. Job,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1935: 18.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “EX-WORKER MASSACRES FOUR ON JOB: Two More Men Near Death Water Carrier Runs Wild With Gun in W.P.A. Ditch; Lynch Threat Balked Walter-Carrier’s Grudge That Flared Into Orgy of Death Shown at W.P.A. Job Four W.P.A. Workers Murdered by Comrade Water Carrier Snipes At Emplyees [sic] and Shoots Down Fleeing Men; Blames ‘Persecution’,” Los Angeles Times 17 Dec. 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4136—Shirley Marie Johnson 2 ½, Mrs. Laura Johnson, Donna Lee Johnson 1 ½, Widow + children of victim Shot by Charles Layman (on WPA project @ La Brea + Exposition) 12/19/35.
Handwritten on negative: Shirley Marie Johnson—2 ½, Mrs. Laura Johnson, Donna Lee “ –1 ½ 12/17/35.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13138
ark:/21198/zz002hn8qj
Subject: Widows
Children--California--Los Angeles
Grief
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Johnson, Shirley Marie, b. 1933
Johnson, Donna Lee, b. 1934
Johnson, Laura
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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