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Title: Raw sewage pours into river
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Watson, Bill
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: Two young boys on bicycles are seen riding through a tranquil Los Angeles River. This same river also has raw sewage poured into it at seasons of peak flow, threatening the spread of communicable diseases. In one day, health officers saw 74 children playing in contaminated waters below the point of discharge north of Griffith Park. Passge of Proposition A (the sewer bond issue) will eliminate such contamination.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028496
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 170-L. A. River.
CARL0000031800
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10450
Subject: Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Sewage disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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