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Title: Snatched from train death, Myra Schienle and her children
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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.
Donald Nims pulled Myra Schienle and her two children from a stalled car sitting on railroad tracks in Pacoima just before a freight train demolished it.
Photograph caption dated September 28, 1959 reads, "Snatched From Train Death -- Mrs. Myra Schienle, 27, of Pacoima hugs her daughter, Darlene, 7, and son Bobby, 6, after three were rescued from stalled car on railroad tracks as train bore down. Passing motorist saved them."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084477
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f30_i29
CARL0004766178
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43111
Subject: Assistance in emergencies--California--Los Angeles
Families--California--Los Angeles
Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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