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. 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. Masses of men, women and children watch as the culvert is raised and efforts are made to extract Melvin Hoffman. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Drowns in Culvert," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 1936: 3. Text from negative sleeve: 5130 Melvin Hoffman Drowning Arroyo Seco Culvert May 5, 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14228 ark:/21198/zz002j7s5j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Culverts--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Rescue work--American--California--Los Angeles Drowning victims--California--Los Angeles
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