Nine-year-old Alta Kerr is on her way to live with her grandmother, Compton, 1936

Title: Nine-year-old Alta Kerr is on her way to live with her grandmother, Compton, 1936
Date Created: May 8, 1036
Date: 1936-05-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with article, "Exile to Utah Decreed for Runaway Juvenile," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1936: A1.
After running away from her home in Compton multiple times 9-year-old Alta most recently turned herself into Compton police, where it has been decreed that she will leave to live with her grandparents in Provo, Utah.
Alta sits on top of the counter with an unidentified man, also holding her doll, which is half the size that she is.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 5350 - Alta Kerr ("runaway girl") multiple times [stamped:] May

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Kerr, Alta Loretta, 1927-1998
Location: Compton (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Dolls
Runaway children--California--Compton
Girls--California--Compton

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14285
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7v40
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