Stanley Lyon and Barbara Fiscus wait to hear the fate of their cousin and sister, respectively, Kathy Fiscus, 1949.

Item Overview

Title: Stanley Lyon and Barbara Fiscus wait to hear the fate of their cousin and sister, respectively, Kathy Fiscus, 1949.
Date Created: April 9, 1949
Date: 1949-04-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: Kathy was trapped after she fell into a 110 ft. San Marino well and subsequently died in it.
Caption: ANXIOUS WATCH - Stanley Lyon, 9, comforts his cousin Barbara, 9, while rescue crews battled through night to save Barbara's sister from old well in San Marino.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12 cm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: San Marino (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Youth
People
Disaster
Children--Death
Family--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b63_57117-3
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0013zrzm
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