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Title: Good Samaritan Donald Nims
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Donald Nims pulled Myra Schienle and her two children from a stalled car sitting on railroad tracks in Pacoima just before a freight train demolished it.
Photograph caption dated September 28, 1959 reads, "Donald Nims -- Saved Three Lives"
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084476
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f30_i28
CARL0004766179
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43122
Subject: Assistance in emergencies--California--Los Angeles
Heroes--California--Los Angeles
Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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