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Title: Rescue mission after a cave-in at Elysian Park, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 31, 1935
1935-12-31
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.
Three men crouch down standing knee-deep in murky water, two of them use a long tool to pry at the walls of the tunnel.
Two men, Mr. Charles William Cheatham and Mr. Lowell Harmer, were trapped by a cave in while exploring an abandoned tunnel, eventually rescued by the fire department.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Cave-In Mystery Park Tunnel Traps Two Men," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4254 - Lowell Harmer Mrs. Harmer Charles William Cheatham Mrs John Becker Cave in-under Figueroa St Bridge 12/23/35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: Cave in - Figueroa St. Bridge
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13302
ark:/21198/zz002hngc8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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