Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 23, 1935

Date

1935-09-23

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of Douglas Wood sitting in collared shirt, shorts, and examining right foot. Douglas, grandson of millionaire Horace Boos, decided to visit his grandmother. Police and the boy's mother, Mary L. Wood, feared Douglas had been kidnapped and searched vainly for him. Douglas arrived safely at his grandmother's.
This photograph appears with the article "Boos Grandson Tells of Trip: Child Heir to Millions Causes Police Search." Los Angeles Times, 24 Sept. 1935: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2226, 9/29/35, Douglas Wood, 4 1/2 yr old, grandson of Boos Bros. (Horace Boos), (Runaway), 9/20/35
Text from newspaper caption: While police radio patrol cars searched vainly for Douglas Wood, 4 1/2-year-old grandson of the late Horace Boos, cafeteria chain millionaire, the boy was making a seven-mile walk to his grandmother's home. It took him six hours and he arrived barefooted.
Handwritten on negative: Douglas Wood, (4 1/2 years)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Wood, Douglas, b. 1931

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Runaway children--California--Los Angeles
Boys--California--Los Angeles