Image / Neftal Pratt is questioned by Lieutenant John G. Landers, Los Angeles, 1939

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Title: Neftal Pratt is questioned by Lieutenant John G. Landers, Los Angeles, 1939
Contributor: Terrell, Maurice
Date Created and/or Issued: January 3, 1939
1939-01-03
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.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Café Gunman Dines and Robs," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1939: 12.
The man and woman pose for the camera - Detective Lieutenant Landers takes notes on a pad while looking at Neftal Pratt, wearing her waitressing uniform and balancing a glass of water in one hand.
Text from negative sleeve: 15336 - Det. Lieut. J.G. Landers Neftal Pratt (waitress) Restaurant Holdup. Scully's café robbery [stamped:] Jan 18 1939
Handwritten on negative: Det. Lieut. J.G. Landers Neftal Pratt
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14746
ark:/21198/zz002j8d1m
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Waitresses--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Pratt, Neftal
Landers, John G., b. 1898 or 99-1960
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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