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A large group of people watch the effort to rescue Melvin Hoffman, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: A large group of people watch the effort to rescue Melvin Hoffman, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: May 5, 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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Drowns in Culvert," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 1936: 3.
Masses of men, women and children watch as the culvert is raised and efforts are made to extract Melvin Hoffman.
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_14228
ark:/21198/zz002j7s5j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Drowning victims--California--Los Angeles
Rescue work--American--California--Los Angeles
Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Culverts--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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