Workmen digging to find victim in San Dimas water tunnel cave-in, 1935

Title: Workmen digging to find victim in San Dimas water tunnel cave-in, 1935
Date Created: [circa March 11, 1935]
Date: 1935-03-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Tunnel Cave-ins Back Slide Victim’s Rescue,” Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1935: 1
Two men search at the end of a water tunnel where a cave-in has trapped one worker.
In March 1935, a water tunnel in San Dimas caved in and trapped one worker. W. T. Shields, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp who was working on the tunnel, was killed in the incident.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Cave-ins, San Dimas tunnel, 1939 nitrates
Handwritten on negative: End of tunnel cave-in San Dimas 3/35 digging for body

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: San Dimas (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Industrial accidents--California--San Dimas
Tunnels--California--San Dimas

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1540
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dc173
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