Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
3 images. Victim of heart attack sets gas pumps afire in gas station ...at Wilshire Boulevard and 9th Street, Santa Monica, 05 May 1952. Thomas J. Walters, Driver, Dead on Arrival at hospital. (Sleeve reads: A-9561). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1952-05-04. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Gas station accident. #17-18-38-39: Scene at gasoline service station at Wilshire Boulevard and 9th Street, Santa Monica, after gas pumps knocked down causing fire, by an automobile driven by an unconscious man who was pronounced dead of a heart attack upon arrival at Santa Monica Hospital. He was identified as Thomas J. Walters, 46, 1044 5th Street, Santa Monica".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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