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Title: Entrance to San Dimas water tunnel cave-in, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa March 11, 1935]
1935-03-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Tunnel Cave-ins Back Slide Victim’s Rescue,” Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1935: 1
A workman shows two men in suits the narrow entrance to the water tunnel. He is wearing overalls and holds a lantern in one hand.
In March 1935, a water tunnel in San Dimas caved in and trapped one worker. W. T. Shields, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp who was working on the tunnel, was killed in the incident.
Text from negative sleeve: Cave-ins, San Dimas tunnel, 1939 nitrates
Handwritten on negative: Entrance to San Dimas tunnel cave-in Mar/35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1539
ark:/21198/zz002dc16k
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Industrial accidents--California--Los Angeles County
Tunnels--California--San Dimas
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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