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

Description:: James raises his finger to gesture as he and Captain Hastings smile.
Date:: April 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
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

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