Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 23, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
- Spectators watch as men work to retrieve Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him as he was working on completion of a gasoline tank storage pit at the Lou Ryne service station.
- Caption
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Reported in the Los Angeles Times article, "Slide In Pit Traps Man: Laborer Saved From Death After Burial Beneath Tons of Earth," 24 Aug. 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Calvin Darling caught in cave in, 8-23-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1745. Calvin Darling at San Pedro & Santa Barbara. Caught in cave in, 8-23-35. [Stamped:] Aug 27.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
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Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles - Names
- Darling, Calvin, b. 1894 or 95
- Location
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California
Los Angeles (Calif.) - Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_10131
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddwsw
- Manifest url
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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 Arcadia funds.