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. Men gather along the sides of the ditch, some of them with shovels. Three laborers employed by the Bureau of Power and Light were seriously injured when the walls of a sixteen-foot ditch collapsed. It is speculated that the timberwork used to support the dirt was not strong enough. The victims were John M. Burns, who suffered a crushed chest and laceration about the head and face, Robert Rosenthal, who suffered contusions of the head, lacerations of the arms, and a possible spinal injury, and Bernard Glennin, who sustained internal injuries and a sprained shoulder. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1. Text from negative sleeve: 8475 - EXCAVATION CAVE-IN ON HIGHLAND, INJURING THREE 4/23/37 [stamped:] Apr 23 1937
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14637 ark:/21198/zz002j8889
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Shovels Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles Rescues--California--Los Angeles Excavation--California--Los Angeles Burns, John M., 1892 or 93 Glennin, Bernard Thomas, 1896-1969 Rosenthal, Robert, b. 1918 or 19
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