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Title: Death at Park La Brea Apartments
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner”
Arrow shows how 86-year old man, Frederick Morris, leaped to his death at Park La Brea Apartments. Suicide victim lays covered on the steps leading into the building. Photograph dated August 9, 1955.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045539
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1227
CARL0000049619
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15961
Subject: Park La Brea Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Suicide victims--California--Los Angeles
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Dead persons--California--Los Angeles
Miracle Mile (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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