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Title: All for the birds
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: 1960
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated May 4, 1960 reads, "At Alameda avenue underpass of Golden State Freeway in Burbank officers take time to free pigeon stuck in melted tar. Passing motorist spotted bird fluttering helplessly while trapped in tar heated by sun. Working at pigeon's favorite roost are Dept. of Animal Regulation officer Russell Sowers, top, while Burbank officer Ted Lane looks on."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118234
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d021_f35_i11
CARL0005359034
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/51701
Subject: Underpasses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Rescues--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Pigeons--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Tar--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Express highways
Interstate 5
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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