John P. McNabb tests carbon monoxide levels, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- John P. McNabb tests carbon monoxide levels, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- March 11, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-11
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The gentlemen and lady stand and crouch around the machine and birdcage, holding paperwork and a gas mask.
Story related to the photograph appears with the article, "Fumes Too Much for Canary in Tunnel Text," Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1936: A1.
Cleo the canary was used to measure levels of carbon monoxide in tunnels, which can prove to be very dangerous to those who are more susceptible to the gas. Company secretary of the testing facility Colonial Mutual Compensation Insurance Company John P. McNabb will be submitting the test results to the Health Department and other sectors. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 4399 - John P. McNabb Lone Morf Wayne C Wyman H.H. Matthieson Gas Tests 3/12/36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936
Handwritten on negative: L2R John P. McNabb Lone Morf Wayne C Wyman H. H. Matthieson 3/12/36
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13566
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnshp
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .