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Officers W. A. Ellenson and J. S. Upwan examine a car wreck, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Officers W. A. Ellenson and J. S. Upwan examine a car wreck, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 10, 1936
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.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Ufer received injuries after a narrow escape with death that they were treated for at Hollywood Receiving Hospital at the intersection of Ardmore Avenue and San Marino Street. Siskind's car was sent rolling eighty feet before stopping.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Crash Pair Miss Death," Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr 1936: A1.
The two officers stand in front of the automobile with one front corner of the car smashed.
Handwritten on negative: 148 J. S. Upwan W. A. Ellenson car owned by Seymour Siskind 4/10/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4807 - J. S. Upwan W. A. Ellenson Seymour Siskind (car) car crash 4/10/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14061
ark:/21198/zz002j7kd8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Upwan, J. S
Ellenson, W.A
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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