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. Photograph appears with the article, "Boy Drowns in Culvert," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 1936: 3. 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. On the sand boys and girls stare into the shallow culvert a few feet below them. Text from newspaper caption: Here is the mouth of the small culvert into which Melvin Hoffman disappeared and drowned while attempting to retrieve a tool he had lost. His brother, Irving Hoffman, went in and dragged out the body, aided by fire department rescue workers. Text from negative sleeve: 5130 Melvin Hoffman Drowning Arroyo Seco Culvert May 5, 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14226 ark:/21198/zz002j7s3h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Culverts--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Drowning victims--California--Los Angeles
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