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Title: Motorman trapped in PE wreck
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: Rescuers clear wreckage to free motorman A. V. Knowles, trapped in a Pacific Electric interurban after it crashed into a freight train in heavy fog at East Eighty-third and Graham Avenue today. Arrow points to Knowles' leg. Thirty-five persons were hurt in the crash. Photo dated: October 16, 1950.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067047
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2203.
CARL0000071312
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24158
Subject: Knowles, A. V
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Pacific Electric Railway Company--Employees
Railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Railroad conductors--California--Los Angeles
Street-railroads--Employees
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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