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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.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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
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