Lina Medina news articles and Ripley's telegrams

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Anthony Giangregorio, Nov 8, 2018.

  1. Hello Everybody, I have an item of interest that I’m really just not sure what to do with. Any help is greatly appreciated.
    There are three notebooks full of news article clippings from 1939 and later, related to Lina Medina. She was a world spectacle for being the youngest girl to ever be a mother at 5 years old. She was from Lima, Peru.
    Attached in the notebook are telegrams from the U.S., from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, requesting Lina and her child and doctor to come to the U.S. to be featured in the 1939 Worlds Fair.
    How would I possibly be able to value this?
    With the limit of photo sizes, I have only posted a couple at very small size.
    There are close to 100 article clippings.
     

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  2. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    5 years old ??? This can't be real .. HOW?? .. Actually this story sickens me, .. OUT.
     
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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    There is already so much available online regarding this extraordinary case (Wikipedia, YouTube, photos, etc) I would wonder whether the "value angle" on this collection might be in who it was that kept it all. The telegrams are to and from someone named Loayza. Is there anything else that might identify just who that person was? And what about Isabel Plata from San Francisco?

    Are the articles all in Spanish or are there also American newspapers included?
     
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  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    the youngest girl to ever be a mother at 5 years old :yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::vomit::inpain::inpain:
     
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  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    The first telegram uses the neologism 'childmother'. In the newspaper photo, the baby looks about a third the size of the 'mother'. I ask you... Does anything mention a father?
     
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  6. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    This child was far too young to menstruate, produce eggs from her ovaries .. or even have room in her belly to carry a child. I believe somebody else gave birth to that baby and that the story is a complete sham, either for money or or publicity .. probably money. If this had actually happened someone should be in jail for rape, abuse of a minor .. and more. But the story is absolutely ridiculous and ugly to boot ... Joy.
     
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  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I wouldn't call that a father.
     
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  8. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Not sure that would happen in Peru at the time. Or some other countries now.
     
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  9. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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  10. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    OK. Back to the coffee pot. You people are creeping me out!! (Or, rather, the generators originally of such disasters are!)
     
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  11. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    This is such an odd, one off collection. It would be difficult to value, as there won’t be comprables. I suppose there is a collector of Ripley memorabilia maybe. You chose a Dousey for your first thread! :hilarious:
     
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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Dousey? I couldn't find anyone in the translator thread for this one, so translation help please? (Did I post it the right way up?:D)
     
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  13. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Not sure I spelled it correctly. :(, ok sorry Doozy! :hilarious:
     
  14. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Ah, didn't know that one either, but found it. I rather liked your spelling, with a certain je ne sais quoi.....:pompous:
     
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  15. Loayza seems to be the name of a national hospital in Peru. There are English articles as well. As for Isabel Plata, I am still translating her letters. I'm gathering the she represents some US entity and was inquiring further as to the events of the child-birth. I'll keep digging. Thank You
     
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