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Title: Student's career ruined by accident
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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: Cal Tech student, William Drake Jr., points to photo of himself on a stretcher after an automobile accident. He claims that the accident ruined his career as a scientist and is suing for $260,000 in damages. Photo dated: April 28, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057588
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1191
CARL0000062416
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22571
Subject: Actions and defenses--California--Pasadena
Accident victims--California--Pasadena
College students--California--Pasadena
Science students--California--Pasadena
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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