14-year-old Mildred Douglas, reported missing, Los Angeles, January 1940

Title: 14-year-old Mildred Douglas, reported missing, Los Angeles, January 1940
Date Created: January 1940
Date: 1940-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: 14-year-old Mildred Douglas, who, along with friend Donna (or Zelia K.) Thompson, was reported missing. A young girl reported seeing them get into a car with 31-year-old H. B. Millard. When called in for questioning Millard testified that he did pick up Douglas and Thompson but dropped them off when he realized how young they were. Millard reported that the girls told him they were running away from home. Girls fitting the description of Douglas and Thompson were seen in an Ontario auto camp one day later.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Douglas, Mildred

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Douglas, Mildred
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Girls--California--Los Angeles
Runaways--California--Los Angeles
Missing persons--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Youth

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002807j2
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