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Title: L.A. high-rise construction accident
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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.
Pictured is Kenneth McKellar, who was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital after surviving the collapse of a building located at 1000 Wilshire. McKeller broke his neck in the two-story fall, five other workers were injured, and three were killed. Photograph dated December 19, 1985.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;34 x 18 cm. on sheet 36 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094849
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f4_i15
CARL0005063282
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33970
Subject: Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Accident victims--California--Los Angeles
Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Structural steel workers--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
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