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Title: Utility pole rescue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Downey-Laskowitz, Ray
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
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.
Photograph shows a man climbing up a utility pole trying to reach another man who is dangling at the top. The victim was quite possibly electrocuted, as he appears to be lifeless, with one leg caught up in the wires, and the rest of his body draping precariously over the pole. A crowd of spectators that appear to be standing on the sandy beach can be seen looking up at the rescue scene. Photograph dated January 3, 1982.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;34 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00091290
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b085_f2_i2
CARL0004999748
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28373
Subject: Search and rescue operations--California--Long Beach
Accident victims--California--Long Beach
Electrocution--California--Long Beach
Rescues--California--Long Beach
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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