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Title: Sewage spill on Dockweiler Beach
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Oversized photograph.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Lone treasure hunter combs the sands of Dockweiller [sic] Beach near LAX as county health warnings keep swimmers at bay". Note on back of photograph reads: "LAX beaches closed because of contaminated water. Man with metal dector [sic] all alone on beach". Photograph dated: Nov. 3, 1987.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083392
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b056_f2_i3
CARL0002873858
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25863
Subject: Beach closures--California, Southern
Marine pollution--California--Los Angeles
Waste disposal in the ocean--California--Los Angeles
Sewage disposal in the ocean--California--Los Angeles
Metal detectors
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Dockweiler State Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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