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

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

Description: 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: 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.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Hastings, Bart P., b. 1891 or 92
Kerr, James Leonard Jr., 1924-2011
Location: Compton (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Siblings--American--California--Compton
Runaway children--California--Compton
Brothers--American--California--Compton

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7m4m
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