Captain B. P. Hastings and runaway 11-year-old James Kerr Jr., Compton, 1936

Item Overview
- Title
- Captain B. P. Hastings and runaway 11-year-old James Kerr Jr., Compton, 1936
- Date Created
- April 15, 1936
- Date
- 1936-04-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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James raises his finger to gesture as he and Captain Hastings smile.
James complained that after his sister Alta was captured during their runaway from their home at 1707 North Spring Street, Compton, his drifting was not as fun, and the boy let himself get captured by authorities.
Cropped photograph appears with the article, "Roving Boy Surrenders," Los Angeles Times, - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: James Kerr Jr. Capt B. P. Hastings
Text from negative sleeve: 4842 - James Kerr Jr. - Capt B. P. Hastings Sheriffs' Office Missing Boy - brother of Alta Kerr [stamped:] Apr 15 1936
Text from newspaper caption: James Kerr, 11 years of age, decided it was too lonesome to run away alone. He's pictured telling of escapades while he and sister, Alta, 8, eluded eight-day search.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Hastings, Bart P., b. 1891 or 92
Kerr, James Leonard Jr., 1924-2011 - Location
- Compton (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Siblings--American--California--Compton
Runaway children--California--Compton
Brothers--American--California--Compton
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7m4m
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .