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Title
Concrete slab kills student
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Chinn, Paul
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
Work crew uses a jackhammer to remove huge concrete slab which fell from its position (top left) onto Cal State L.A. student, Lupe Elias-Exposito, crushing her when the 6.1 quake hit. Photo dated: October 1987.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00056955
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Earthquakes-Whittier.
CARL0000060128
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21742
Subject
University of California, Los Angeles
Earthquakes
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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