Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Several men dig at the earth with shovels while various spectators watch. Photograph appears with the article, "Cave-in Kills Worker in Sewer Excavation," Los Angeles Times, 07 Jan 1936: A1. Department of Sewer Maintenance employee Peter Sanchez is remembered as a "good Samaritan" after attempting to help a resident on Newell street with his own excavation while working with city employees to repair a sewer at Newell and Blake streets. He jumped into 2800 Newell Street resident James Douglass' eleven-foot ditch, causing the walls of earth to collapse and bury him alive. Text from negative sleeve: 3217 - Cave in at Newell + Blake St. - [stamped:] Jan 14 1936 Handwritten on negative: Cave in at Newell + Blake St. - Text from newspaper caption: Buried under tons of earth when an eleven-foot-deep sewage ditch collapsed over him, Peter Sanchez, city laborer, met his death here at 2800 Newell street. Workmen are shown repairing damage caused by the falling dirt.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12095 ark:/21198/zz002h831v
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Subject
Laborers--California--Los Angeles Sewerage--California--Los Angeles Accidents--California--Los Angeles Sanchez, Peter, 1936
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