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Title
Man plunges to death from First Street bridge
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
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.
The body of Earl F. Walker lies beneath the First Street Bridge, after he fell or leaped (broken line) to death. Photograph dated May 29, 1948.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00046697
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1650
CARL0000050667
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16517
Subject
Dead persons--California--Los Angeles
Bridges--California--Los Angeles
Suicide victims--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California, Southern
Train tracks--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
First Street Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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