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Officer Joseph Lundrigan saves a Christmas shopper from oncoming traffic, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Officer Joseph Lundrigan saves a Christmas shopper from oncoming traffic, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 16, 1935
1935-12-16
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Officer Lundrigan, normally stationed at Fifth and Olive streets, saved an unidentified woman from being struck by a speeding ambulance, which had already been carrying a victim of a hit and run. Lundrigan was quoted as saying, "Aw, it was nothing."
Photograph appears with the article, "Hero Saves Pedestrian," Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec 1935: A1.
A uniformed Officer Lundrigan stands beside the street, the visor of his gap shading his eyes.
Handwritten on negative: 145 Joseph S. Lundrigan
Text from newspaper caption: Joe S. Lundrigan, policeman who risked life to save woman from onrushing ambulance.
Text from negative sleeve: 4160 - Joseph Lundrigan Traffic Cop - 5th, Olive 12/17/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13166
ark:/21198/zz002hn9ph
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Uniforms
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Traffic police--California--Los Angeles
Lundrigan, Joseph Stuard, 1901-1945
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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