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. Phyllis was the victim of an attempted kidnapping from her and older sister Jean's bedroom, the only casualty of which was her doll, whose head was crushed by an automobile but fixed thanks to doll repairman Don Da Costa. Photograph appears with the article, "Kidnap Case Doll Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec 1935: 3. Phyllis clutches her repaired doll standing beside Don Da Costa who shows the girl several doll heads. Text from negative sleeve: 4244 - Don Da Costa fixed broken doll of girl AH. Kidnapping (see #4170) 12/24/35 Text from newspaper caption: Don DaCosta, doll doctor, who put a new head on the favorite doll of Phyllis Thomas, shown with him. The doll was broken in an encounter which police believe was a kidnap attempt. Handwritten on negative: 121 121 Don DaCosta P 12/24/35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13289 ark:/21198/zz002hnfx2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dolls Christmas presents Thomson, Phyllis, 1932-2004 DaCosta, Don
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