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Title: Crowd gathers to watch the removal of Melvin Hoffman's body, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: May 5, 1936
1936-05-05
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Drowns in Culvert," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 1936: 3.
Dozens of people watch as Melvin's body, wrapped in a blanket, is placed by police onto a stretcher.
When Melvin climbed into the culvert to retrieve a lost tool his body dammed enough water to drown him. Firemen unsuccessfully attempted to revive him after his body was retrieved. A doctor ruled that he might have died of heart failure.
Text from negative sleeve: 5130 Melvin Hoffman Drowning Arroyo Seco Culvert May 5, 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14225
ark:/21198/zz002j7s20
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Children--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Drowning victims--California--Los Angeles
Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles
Hoffman, Melvin E., 1922-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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