Los Angeles County sheriffs with trunk of baby clothes, Oildale, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Los Angeles County sheriffs with trunk of baby clothes, Oildale, 1927

Date Created

1927

Date

1927

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Norris Stensland, Eugene Biscailuz, and A.L. Hutchison, all in suits and ties, crouched around open black trunk of baby clothes and blankets, indoors with door in background
This photograph appears with the article “Houses on Purported Grave Sites Balk Hunt for Missing Babies, Clews Yielded by Black Trunk, Box in Oildale House Full of Infants’ Clothes, Hypodermic Needle, Girls’ Pictures Also Found, Mrs. Foss to be in Condition for Quizzing Soon.” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1927: A2

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: Norris Stensland, Gene Biscailuz, A.L. Hutchison, Baby farm
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Biscailuz, Eugene, with Wm. Traeger & Capt. Jewel
Text from newspaper caption: “Baby Farm” Trunk and Contents. Clews to Missing Infants. Deputy Sheriff Stensland with hypodermic needle, Undersheriff Biscailuz and Deputy Sheriff Hutchinson [should read: Hutchison] and trunk of baby clothes.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Stensland, Norris Gilbert, 1891-1956
Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969
Hutchison, A. L. (Alvin L.), b. 1889 or 90

Location

Oildale (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sheriffs--California--Oildale