Workers attempt to rescue John M. Burns, Robert Rosenthal, and Bernard Glennin after a cave-in, Los Angeles, 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers attempt to rescue John M. Burns, Robert Rosenthal, and Bernard Glennin after a cave-in, Los Angeles, 1937
- Date Created
- April 1937
- Date
- 1937-04
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1.
Three laborers employed by the Bureau of Power and Light were seriously injured when the walls of a sixteen-foot ditch collapsed. It is speculated that the timberwork used to support the dirt was not strong enough. The victims were John M. Burns, who suffered a crushed chest and laceration about the head and face, Robert Rosenthal, who suffered contusions of the head, lacerations of the arms, and a possible spinal injury, and Bernard Glennin, who sustained internal injuries and a sprained shoulder.
A line of men stand at the edge of the ditch holding pieces of timber into the crevice. Another man leans over the edge and scrapes at the dirt with a shovel. One of the victims can be seen in the crevice, his head a few inches from the surface.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Glennin, Bernard Thomas, 1896-1969
Rosenthal, Robert, b. 1918 or 19
Burns, John M., 1892 or 93 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Excavation--California--Los Angeles
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14639
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j88bb
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- 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 .