get ready for summer kids
This was more my mother’s style. Disturbingly, she told me this was me, which frightened me because I couldn’t remember ever getting my picture painted. (There’s a matching boy one, who of course was my brother.)
Overdose of sleeping pills, 31 March 1952. Esther Kirsch (nurse); Jonathan Pinne — 7 years (his mother gave him sleeping pills intending to murder him); Mrs. Elizabeth Pinne — 31 years (suspicion of murder attempt); Detective V.W. French.
Above: Mrs. Elizabeth Pinne
“Mrs. Nell Jenkins, in Downey Justice Court for child neglect and possession of a dangerous drug”.
Boy kills self, 28 August 1951.
2-year-old George Geiger, who killed himself in temper tantrum after mother denied him candy.
More from the “enacting street hazards” series, Los Angeles (Wilshire and McCadden), 1931
More from the “enacting street hazards” series, Los Angeles, 1931 (Wilshire and McCadden)
More from the “enacting street hazards” series, Los Angeles, 1931 (Wilshire and McCadden)
One in a series of “enacting street hazards,”
Wilshire and McCadden, Los Angeles, 1931
little vandal!
Halloween Party, 1941
Photog: William C. Shrout
