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Title
Dragging tar pits
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Worden, Art
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
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
Maintenance supervisor, Joe Schambrey (right), assistant supervisor, John Estes (center) and Dennis Anderson (left) try to recover a body from the Tar Pits as spectators behind the fence look on. Photo caption reads: "Park maintenance men probe the main pit at La Brea Tar Pits for body of possible suicide victim. Several feet of rain water lays on surface of bubbling tar". Photo dated: Dec. 21, 1964.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00071910
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 370.
CARL0000075392
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27504
Subject
Schambrey, Joe
Estes, John
Anderson, Dennis
Dredging--California--Los Angeles
Search and rescue operations--California--Los Angeles
Building-service employees--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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