Gloria Graves is dug up from her steel tomb, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Gloria Graves is dug up from her steel tomb, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

November 22, 1935

Date

1935-11-22

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

19-year-old Gloria Graves has been arrested for violating the city's Marathon ordinance outlawing contests and entertainments involving endurance that might affect participants' health due to locking herself in a steel tomb for the past week at Fifth Street and Vermont Avenue.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Tomb Girl's Bail Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov 1935: 9.
Gloria's face is seen through a window in the coffin. A man in a black suit leans over her coffin and the outlines of men's shoes and legs are seen standing outside of the grave.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Gloria Graves 11-15-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2861 - Gloria Graves sideshow stunt violating Marathon ordinance Buried Alive gal. Dug up 11-16-35 [stamped:] Nov 22 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Graves, Gloria, b. 1915 or 16

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sideshows--California--Los Angeles
Coffins
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Graves--California--Los Angeles