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Title: Suicide victim
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: 1956
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 9, 1956 reads, "Body of apparent suicide victim identified by police as Merritt Barger, about 40, of 14052 Roblar Rd., Sherman Oaks, lies beside dead dog in car parked in Santa Monica Mountains above Woodland Hills. Police said Barger attached hose to exhaust and extended it into window-sealed automobile."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00144742
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d053_f32_i19
CARL0005851778
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/73515
Subject: Suicide--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Suicide victims--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Dead persons--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Dead animals--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Dogs--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Men--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Automobiles--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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