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Title: Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 23, 1935
1935-08-23
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 Arcadia funds.
Spectators watch as men work to retrieve Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him as he was working on completion of a gasoline tank storage pit at the Lou Ryne service station.
Reported in the Los Angeles Times article, "Slide In Pit Traps Man: Laborer Saved From Death After Burial Beneath Tons of Earth," 24 Aug. 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Calvin Darling caught in cave in, 8-23-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1745. Calvin Darling at San Pedro & Santa Barbara. Caught in cave in, 8-23-35. [Stamped:] Aug 27.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10131
ark:/21198/zz002ddwsw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles
Darling, Calvin, b. 1894 or 95
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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