Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California University Archives specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Overturned auto... 3300 Block North Gaffey Street, San Pedro, 18 November 1951. Private Theodore De Long, driver. Supplementary material reads: "Chernus -- Harbor. Caption wreck. Two negs show car of Private Theodore Dewey DeLong, 19, of Camp Roberts, which skidded 175 feet, leaped a prone telephone pole, hurdled a six-foot embankment and flopped upside down against a power pole on 3300 block North Gaffey street, San Pedro, early today. Pinned in his car, Private DeLong managed to extricate himself by crawling out of truck compartment. Injuries a possible sprained right ankle. He said he lost control of car when he suddenly served to avoid a zigzagging automobile racing at him from the rear. If one officer in pix it is B.W. Embree. If two officers in pix they are Embree and Raymond Callaghan".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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