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Title: Robbery victim Elizabeth Harrison, Los Angeles, 1939
Contributor: Terrell, Maurice
Date Created and/or Issued: January 18, 1939
1939-01-18
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.
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
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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