Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Clyde Woodward looks at a gas heater in the laundry room of the Maywood home where his son-in-law, Owen Cotton, 26, died and his daughter, 19, was overcome by asphyxiation when the heater burned all the oxygen from the closed room. Mr. and Mrs. Cotton had improvised a bed near the water heater in the washroom of their one-bedroom home to make room for her visiting parents. Photograph dated November 17, 1947.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Death--California--Maywood Dwellings--California--Maywood Water heaters, Gas--California--Maywood Husband and wife--California--Maywood Maywood (Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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