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Title: Pedestrian struck and killed by train, Compton
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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.
Two junior high students, armed with rain gear, stop to look at the body of an unidentified person who was killed by an oncoming freight train in the city of Compton. The rail system is operated by Southern Pacific. Photograph dated December 10, 1984.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096104
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f5_i14
CARL0005107051
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30603
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Dead persons--California--Compton
Middle school students--California--Compton
Railroad accidents--California--Compton
Railroad tracks--California--Compton
Railroad cars--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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