Subject: Runaway children--California--Compton - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Similar photograph appears with article, "Exile to Utah Decreed for Runaway Juvenile," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1936: A1.
Date:: May 8, 1036
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eight-year-old Alta and her eleven-year-old brother James Kerr ran away from their home at 1707 North Spring Street in Compton on March 22 and slept outdoors each night, getting sustenance from stolen milk bottles and food bought with pennies.
Date:: April 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Cropped photograph appears with the article, "Roving Boy Surrenders," Los Angeles Times,
Date:: April 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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