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Title: Man caught in experimental cooling tower at 2500 South Atlantic Boulevard, 1954
Creator: Milligan
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954-04-13
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: 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
specol@usc.edu
Description: 4 images. Man caught in experimental cooling tower at 2500 South Atlantic Boulevard, 13 April 1954. Bill McCormick (one of rescuers)
Robert Loya -- 29 years (victim). (Sleeve reads: S-9908).
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Milligan. Date: 1954-04-13. Reporter: Dunn. Assignment: Man caught in experimental cooling tower at 2500 So. Atlantic Blvd. 5-6: Bill McCormick, one of the rescuers, looks at a four-foot blade used on fan similar to one which cut Robert Loya, 29, test engineer at Fluor Corp. 7-8: Firemen and employees help to lift stretcher containing Robert Loya, 29, from fire ladder truck."
Type: image
Format: 4 photographs : negatives, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
image/tiff
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m
EXM-N-9908-051~1...~4
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m25383
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-9908-051~1.jpg
Language: English
Subject: Accidents
Time Period: 1954-04-13
Place: 2500 South Atlantic Boulevard
34.000749,-118.169793
California
Commerce
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 9908-051 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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