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Title: Reservoir cave-in kills Robert Lacey, Santa Monica
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of construction workers standing over a covered body, presumably that of construction worker Robert Lacey, following a cave-in that killed Lacey and injured others at the Santa Monica Reservoir construction site on April 11, 1949.
Title transcribed from envelope in which negative was received; date supplied by cataloger based on history of event (see "One Killed 14 Injured in Cave-in," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1949, page 1) .
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 12.5 x 9.9 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489051
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18907
Subject: Accidents
Building sites
Construction workers
Industrial accidents
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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