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. The fifteen-year-old boys escaped from the California Junior Republic, lied that they were twin brothers with their father paying for their fare and boarded a train all the way to Santa Fe before they were apprehended by police. The boys sit next to each other with closely-cropped light hair wearing denim uniforms, Neal leaning with his chin against his fist. Photograph appears with the article, "Youthful Pair Taken," Los Angeles Times, 07 Apr 1936: 6. Handwritten on negative: Fred Parsons Neal Parker Text from negative sleeve: 4843 - Fred Parsons Neal Parker } 15 y.o.'s Burglary (escaped from Calif. Junior Repub., Chino) [stamped:] Apr 15 1936 Text from newspaper caption: Neal Parker and Fred Parsons, each 15 years of age, shown on return yesterday after chase that started March 17 when they escaped from California Junior Republic at Chino. Police say the boys posed as twins and made one escape at Albuquerque by wearing bed sheets.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14083 ark:/21198/zz002j7m54
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Portrait photographs Boys--California--Chino Teenagers Runaways--California--Chino Parker, Neal, b. 1921 Parsons, Fred, b. 1921
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