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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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