Street car accident aftermath, Los Angeles, 1937

Description: Bird's-eye view of crashed street car at First and Hill Streets, with hill in foreground, police officers and crowd gathered at intersection in midground, buildings, parking lot, and billboards in background
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 9, 1937, Eight Persons Injured When Street Car Runs Wild on First Street Grade. … brakes on the street car failed to work as it descended steep First-street slope west of Hill street. … Eight persons were injured as the heavy vehicle smashed through the barrier at bottom of hill, careened across busy thoroughfare, crushed a small brick restaurant on the corner, mangled two automobiles and half tipped over against another light pole before stopping. …
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Feb 12 1937 7849 - Street car wreck - 1st & Hill - Feb-8-37

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
bird's-eye views
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.054606
Latitude: -118.24679
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Transportation

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0189
0189
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9dm6
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