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Title
Mountain rescue
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Elliott, Marie
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
Photograph caption dated January 19, 1959 reads, "Judy Arnold, 16, is led down Suicide Mountain by 13-man sheriff's rescue party as her brothers, Max, 22; and James Scott, 12, upper left, await on narrow shale ledge where they were trapped several hours yesterday. Also led to safety in second of two rescue operations in Big Tujunga Canyon was Daniel Tirre, 14. Sheriff's mountaineers also rescued four other teenagers from Clear Creek Canyon where they were stranded over night after a hiking trip Saturday."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00086206
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d005_f20_i7
CARL0004782107
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43305
Subject
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Department
Mountaineering--Search and rescue operations--California--Los Angeles
Search and rescue operations--California--Los Angeles
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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