Linda Lee Baker with her grandmother, Sister Ruth Lewis, at Northridge Hospital after the 9-year-old suffered burns from a bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.

Item Overview

Title

Linda Lee Baker with her grandmother, Sister Ruth Lewis, at Northridge Hospital after the 9-year-old suffered burns from a bombing of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.

Date Created

December 11, 1958

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photo by Fred Tschantre
Headquarters, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was bombed by twp former sect members, killing 11.
Image that accompanies captions in print is 114115k-2, which has not been scanned as of October 16, 2008.

Caption

Daily Mirror caption: SUFFERING - Sister Ruth Lewis holds grand-daughter Linda Lee, her face reflecting the pain of burns. Both hands are bandaged, her hair singed.
LA Times caption: BURN VICTIM - Sister Ruth Lewis comforts her granddaughter, Linda Lee Baker, 9, at Northridge Hospital. Girl's father and 7-year-old sister Keela were among the ten who died in the blast.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12 cm

Medium

b&w negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs

Subjects

Cults--California--Ventura County
Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles County
Victims of Crimes--California--Ventura County
Burns & scalds
Bombings--California.
Disaster
People

Location

Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

34.2196715819552

Latitude

-118.534122705459

Resource type

still image