Entrance to San Dimas water tunnel cave-in, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Entrance to 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
Notes
- Description
-
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Tunnel Cave-ins Back Slide Victim’s Rescue,” Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1935: 1
A workman shows two men in suits the narrow entrance to the water tunnel. He is wearing overalls and holds a lantern in one hand.
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: Entrance to San Dimas tunnel cave-in Mar/35
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- San Dimas (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Industrial accidents--California--Los Angeles County
Tunnels--California--San Dimas
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1539
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dc16k
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
-
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. - License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .