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. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Café Gunman Dines and Robs," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1939: 12. An unknown bandit held up President of the Gold Star Mothers of LA Elizabeth Harrison on her way to her car after she finished her lunch at Scully's Café, where he had been watching her. He had left a ten cent tip for his waitress, Neftal Pratt. Mrs. Harrison looks away from the camera as she sits in a chair and fidgets with her hands. Text from negative sleeve: 15334 - Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison LA Gold Star Mothers (Past Pres.) bookkeeper @ Scully's café on Crenshaw who was robbed [stamped:] Jan 18 1939 Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14744 ark:/21198/zz002j8cz3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Robberies--California--Los Angeles Harrison, Elizabeth American Gold Star Mothers, Inc
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