Don DaCosta fixes the broken doll of 4-year-old Phyllis Thomson, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Don DaCosta fixes the broken doll of 4-year-old Phyllis Thomson, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 24, 1935
Date: 1935-12-24
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Phyllis was the victim of an attempted kidnapping from her and older sister Jean's bedroom, the only casualty of which was her doll, whose head was crushed by an automobile but fixed thanks to doll repairman Don Da Costa.
Photograph appears with the article, "Kidnap Case Doll Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec 1935: 3.
Phyllis clutches her repaired doll standing beside Don Da Costa who shows the girl several doll heads.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4244 - Don Da Costa fixed broken doll of girl AH. Kidnapping (see #4170) 12/24/35
Text from newspaper caption: Don DaCosta, doll doctor, who put a new head on the favorite doll of Phyllis Thomas, shown with him. The doll was broken in an encounter which police believe was a kidnap attempt.
Handwritten on negative: 121 121 Don DaCosta P 12/24/35

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13289
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