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Title
Mother saves drowning child
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Woods, Jon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1961
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated May 24, 1961 partially reads, "A 23-month-old Sherman Oaks girl escaped drowning today because her mother remembered a casual conversation last week about mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. Little Sheryl Ann Murdock tumbled into the pool in front of her grandmother's home, 14470 Mulholland Dr., at 9:45 a.m. today. When her mother, Mrs. Carol Ann Murdock, 23, spotted her, the girl was floating face down at the shallow end of the pool. She had begun to turn blue. Mrs. Murdock frantically grabbed the child and started mouth-to-mouth respiration - a technique she had known nothing about before a conversation with her mother, Mrs. Harold E. Royer, last Friday." Officer M. P. Caldwell carries little Sheryl from the pool, after her mother had saved her.; See image #00125165 for additional photo in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00125166
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d030_f11_i28
CARL0005427641
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/57353
Subject
Drowning--Resuscitation--California--Los Angeles
Swimming pools--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Lifesaving--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Mothers and daughters--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Girls--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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