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Title: Baby saved from fire David Goldberg and his mother, Juanita
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: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Juanita Goldberg left instructions for a neighboor woman to watch her baby when she went to a nearby laundromat. The baby was asleep in apartment when a fire broke out. A truck driver passing by stopped, smashed the door in, pulled the baby from the fire and handed the baby to a neighbor then left without a word. Later the truck driver came forward, he was Blas Saenz. See photograph 00085576 for image of Saenz.
Photograph caption dated November 18, 1959 reads, "Disturbed, Unperturbed -- Those words seem to fit mother and child as Mrs. Juanita Goldberg, 11343 Martha Ave., North Hollywood, kisses 10-month-old sleeping David, rescued from apartment fire by unidentified truck driver. Baby was asleep in upstairs apartment when fire broke out. He settled down to continue nap after mom and dad went through ordeal of transferring to new quarters."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085575
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f34_i4
CARL0004769850
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42979
Subject: Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Mother and child--California--Los Angeles
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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