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Title: Latex spill on freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "A thickening sight on the freeway: Cleanup crews using high-powered vacuums remove 2,500 gallons of white liquid latex coating from the San Bernardino Freeway after a tanker truck overturned during the morning rush hour in Baldwin Park. 'It was probably about an inch thick and really gooey, and it was hardening all over the road,' said CHP Officer Richard Tingwall. All four westbound lanes and one eastbound lane were closed for more than six hours, and two people were slightly injured." Photograph dated: July 3, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082138
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b009_f3_i8
CARL0000081248
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24976
Subject: Chemical spills--Cleaning--California--Baldwin Park
Truck accidents--California--Baldwin Park
Express highways--California, Southern
Interstate 10
Baldwin Park (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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