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Title: Sewage spill on Dockweiler Beach
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Oversized photograph.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Note on back of photograph reads: "Beaches closed/contamination. Lone man with metal detector is the only one for miles along Dockwieller [sic] Beach near LAX". A Northwest Airlines jet takes off from LAX, flying over the nearly deserted Dockweiler Beach State Park. Photograph dated: [Nov. 3, 1987].
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083393
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b056_f2_i6
CARL0002873859
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25873
Subject: Northwest Airways, Inc
Beach closures--California, Southern
Sewage disposal in the ocean--California--Los Angeles
Metal detectors
Airplanes
Mountains--California, Southern
Waste disposal in the ocean--California--Los Angeles
Marine pollution--California--Los Angeles
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Dockweiler State Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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