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. Eight-year-old Alta and her eleven-year-old brother James Kerr ran away from their home at 1707 North Spring Street in Compton on March 22 and slept outdoors each night, getting sustenance from stolen milk bottles and food bought with pennies. With one bare knee showing, Alta lies down wrapped in a blanket, grinning with only one eye open and clutching a milk bottle. Photograph appears with the article, "Strange Odyssey of 8-Year-Old Runaway Told," Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 1936: A1. Text from newspaper caption: With only a blanket for her bed and an occasional bottle of milk for food, 8-year-old Alta Kerr of Compton was found yesterday in Orange after thirteen days of wandering about the country with her brother, James L. Kerr, 11. Text from negative sleeve: 4678 - Alta Kerr-8 yrs Runaway - (multiple times) 4/5/36 [stamped:] Apr 9-1936 Handwritten on negative: 155 155 Alta Kerr+8yrs 4/3/36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13888 ark:/21198/zz002j7cfw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Milk Runaway children--California--Compton Kerr, Alta Loretta, 1927-1998
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