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Title
Grief-stricken parents
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Steele, Bob
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
1955
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
Original photograph has several stains.
Photograph caption dated May 3, 1955 reads "Mrs. Harry Charleston collapses in tears in arms of grief-stricken husband, as body of Michael Charleston, 7, is taken into ambulance. Michael was pronounced dead when all efforts to revive him after drowning failed. He had climbed eight-foot fence to fall into water pool."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00142805
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d051_f16_i2
CARL0005765789
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71301
Subject
Men--California--San Fernando Valley
Women--California--San Fernando Valley
Parents--California--San Fernando Valley
Parental grief--California--San Fernando Valley
Police--California--San Fernando Valley
Drowning--California--San Fernando Valley
Traffic signs and signals--California--San Fernando Valley
Street signs--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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