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Charles Cohen, survivor of Florida hurricane reading newspaper reports about the steamer he was rescued from, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Charles Cohen, survivor of Florida hurricane reading newspaper reports about the steamer he was rescued from, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 21, 1935
1935-09-21
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.
Photograph of Charles Cohen holding a newspaper with photographs that show the rescue of passengers from the steamer Dixie. Mr. Cohen is in his home and in the background there is a piece of wooden furniture.
This photograph appears in the article, “Lived to Read About It,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 1935: 3.
Handwritten on negative: Chars. Cohen, 9-20-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 2240-Charles Cohen, Passenger on S S Dixie, 9-20-35. [Stamped:] Sep 26 1935.
Newspaper caption: Charles Cohen, insurance agent, one of the 231 passengers rescued from the steamer Dixie grounded on French Reef in the Florida hurricane, returned home yesterday and is shown here as he read his first local accounts in The Times of the tropical storm.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8673
ark:/21198/zz002dgkxh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Newspapers--California--Los Angeles
Cohen, Charles, 1895-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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