Laura de la Puente is witness in car accident, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Laura de la Puente is witness in car accident, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 13, 1935

Date

1935-09-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Tougher penalties for drunken and reckless drivers are to start being enforced in California. 232 drivers were brought into Municipal Judge Scott's court for traffic citations, 26 of whom chose to serve jail time in lieu of paying fines. Charles H. Holmes was sentenced for colliding with the back of a vehicle driven by Laura de la Puente.
Photograph appears with the article, "Law Grips at Drivers," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep 1935: A1.
A smiling Laura poses, wearing a large sunhat.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2233 - Laura de la Puente Peruvian film dancer accident witness 9-13-35 [stamped:] Sep
Handwritten on negative: Laura de la Puente 9-13-35
Text from newspaper caption: Laura de la Puente

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

de la Puente, Laura (Maria Laura La Puente), b. 1905

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Portrait photographs
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--Peruvian--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles