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Nine-year-old Alta Kerr is on her way to live with her grandmother, Compton, 1936

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Title: Nine-year-old Alta Kerr is on her way to live with her grandmother, Compton, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: May 8, 1036
1936-05-08
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.
Similar photograph appears with article, "Exile to Utah Decreed for Runaway Juvenile," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1936: A1.
After running away from her home in Compton multiple times 9-year-old Alta most recently turned herself into Compton police, where it has been decreed that she will leave to live with her grandparents in Provo, Utah.
Alta sits on top of the counter with an unidentified man, also holding her doll, which is half the size that she is.
Text from negative sleeve: 5350 - Alta Kerr ("runaway girl") multiple times [stamped:] May
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14285
ark:/21198/zz002j7v40
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dolls
Runaway children--California--Compton
Girls--California--Compton
Kerr, Alta Loretta, 1927-1998
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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