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Title
Long Beach wife 'rescued' by raft from high tide waters
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph caption reads, "Martin Nationalesta pushed his wife on a raft over the high tide waters that hit the Long Beach Harbor region. Their home at 1601 West Seaside boulevard is one of many which had to be evacuated. More than 100 persons moved out to higher land. Another 7-foot tide is expected to swirl into the same region again tonight." Photograph dated July 19, 1951.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00078646
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 193
CARL0000079785
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24675
Subject
Floods--California--Long Beach
Couples--California--Long Beach
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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