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Title
Nine-story plunge kills foot surgeon
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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 included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner”
This Hall of Records was built in 1906 and demolished in 1973.
Photograph article dated March 16, 1950 partially reads, "Dr. Irving A. Marvin, 56, chiropody surgeon and foot specialist, plunged to his death yesterday from a ninth floor window of the Hall of Records."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00093276
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 60
CARL0005010262
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28690
Subject
Los Angeles County Hall of Records (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1911-1962)
Suicide--California--Los Angeles
Municipal government--Records and correspondence
Municipal buildings--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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