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. Doreene Peterson is a 21-year-old orphan who has worked as a waitress, stenographer and practical nurse; however, when she travelled to San Francisco she was unable to find work, which prompted her to jump trains back to Los Angeles where she was arrested by police for evading fare. Doreene Peterson leans against the bars of a jail cell, wearing a pair of dirty men's trousers cinched with a belt. She smiles with her hands in her pockets. Handwritten on negative: Doreene Peterson 11-28-35 Text from newspaper caption: Doreene Peterson, who prefers train bums to men motorists. Text from negative sleeve: 4289 - Doreene Peterson 11-28-35 (21 y.o. orphan, unemployed) Riding on Freight Train [stamped:] Dec 31 1935 Photograph appears with the article, "Girl "Hobo" Seeks Work," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: A22.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13351 ark:/21198/zz002hnj2k
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Unemployed--California--Los Angeles Freighthopping--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Peterson, Doreene, b. 1914
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