Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 23, 1935
Date: 1935-08-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him. Two men are seen standing at opposite sides of the pit, with Darling seen at center. Two signs from the gasoline service station provide a buttress against loose earth surrounding the pit. One sign reads: "Vales Ground 75 [cents] per cyl." Darling was working on completion of a storage tank pit at the service station when the incident occurred.
Caption: 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.
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.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10133
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