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Description
8 images. Train wreck victims (Olmo), 23 January 1956. George Muelinberg (injured) Richard Everline (injured) Henrietta Muelinberg (injured) Mrs. Irene Miller (helping with victims) Miss Mary Patricia Brame (injured) Eva Thomas (injured) Alberta Nelson (injured) Blanche Magee (helping with injured). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Olmo. Date: 1956-01-23. Reporter: Thackrey. Assignment: Wreck victims. 61 & 62: Eva Thomas of Santa Ana, tells of the bouncing and swaying of the train just before it jumped the tracks. Her husband, Warren, was in the wreck with her at General. 64: Alberta Nelson of Santa Ana sips water from a glass held by Blanche Magee, admission room superintendent at General Hospital. She said she didn't want her friends to know she was in the wreck at General. 65 & 66: George Muelinberg of Sorrente, who has a broken left leg, lights a cigarette for Richard Everline of San Diego, whose left arm was fractured in the train wreck at General. 63: Henrietta Muelinberg of Sorrento, tells us how she and her husband, George, climbed out of the wreck after their coach overturned. Her injuries reported slight, fractured left shoulder. 67: Mary Patricia Brame. 68: Mrs. Irene Miller of San Diego gives a sip of orange juice to Miss Mary Patricia Brame, also of San Diego. Mrs. Miller is the mother of Miss Brame's employer at a San Diego dance studio. They wound up in the same room at Good Sam".
Type
image
Format
8 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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