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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated May 19, 1961 reads, "Rojim M. Lewis, 4530 Tyrone St., Sherman Oaks, was pronounced dead on arrival at Valley Receiving Hospital after he slipped while playing at a construction site. Rescuers, above, treated the 9-year-old boy at the scene of the accident, 14640 Dickens St., but it was too late. Investigators said the youth was walking on a girder, slipped, and hit his head on cement foundation. A companion, Warner Page, who had been playing on the other side of the structure, found young Lewis in a foundation trench."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Accident victims--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles--Death Boys--California--Los Angeles Building sites--California--Studio City (Los Angeles) Death--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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