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Title: Coffin of airplane crash victim
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
American Airlines Flight 191, traveling from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off on May 25, 1979 at approximately 3:00 p.m. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 were killed.
Photograph caption dated July 7, 1979 reads, "An American Airlines cap lies amid flowers atop one of the coffins at the San Pedro ceremonies."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 31 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085610
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b035_f7_i1
CARL0004769139
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26251
Subject: American Airlines
Coffins--California--Los Angeles
Aircraft accidents--Illinois--Chicago
American Airlines Flight 191 Crash, Chicago, Ill., 1979
Aircraft accident victims
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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