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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated December 28, 1961 partially reads, "A bird in the hand, Henry Cooper discovered Wednesday, is worth a trip up a power pole. The Van Nuys lineman scaled the 40-foot high-voltage power pole in Pacoima to rescue a pigeon that had fluttered helplessly for an hour, its leg caught between two-wires."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Rescues--California--Los Angeles Pigeons--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Electric lines--Poles and towers Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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