Emma Boyts, 15, sitting on a chair on top of a desk, Los Angeles, November 13, 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Emma Boyts, 15, sitting on a chair on top of a desk, Los Angeles, November 13, 1939
- Date Created
- November 13, 1939
- Date
- 1939-11-13
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Photo of 15-year-old Emma Boyts sitting on a chair on top of a desk before she was hit by a truck while crossing San Fernando Road. Boyts was only injured but her friend, 12-year-old Luise Schoenemann, was killed. The truck driver, Clarence E. Anderson, was held on suspicion of manslaughter after the crossing guard told police that Anderson ignored his motions to halt traffic while the two girls crossed.
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Emma Boyts
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Boyts, Emma
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Boyts, Emma
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Girls--California--Los Angeles
People
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002804pp
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .