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

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.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935

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

Description:
Photograph of workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him. Several men are seen standing around the pit at the surface. One police officer holds an empty bucket while two men are viewed inside the pit with Darling. 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.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935

St. George Hotel in Volcano, and hydraullic mining in Yuba County (?), 1936 (copy neg.)

Description:
Bottom: Hydraulic mining Yuba county? Work, which washed away eight times as much soil as was excavatted in building Panama Canal, not permitted only behind Retention dams, which prevent silt andn other detruits from clogging streams. Reservoirs delivered water to nozzles at pressure of 350 pounds.
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
St. George Hotel in Volcano, and hydraullic mining in Yuba County (?), 1936 (copy neg.)

Senator Joseph Pedrotti, Assemblymen George W. Rochester and Clare Woolwine, and Sen. P.J. Gray, California, circa 1929

Description:
Three men are standing while one is seated, reading a document. From right to left: Senator Joseph Pedrotti, George W. Rochester, Clare Woolwine, seated, Senator P.J. Gray. They were part of the legislative committee responsible for selecting a site for a state prison in Southern California. Initial tours were conducted in August 1929.
Date:
[circa 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Senator Joseph Pedrotti, Assemblymen George W. Rochester and Clare Woolwine, and Sen. P.J. Gray, California, circa 1929

Roy Porter, Henry Dana Junior High School principal, testifying in court, (San Pedro?), 1935

Description:
Photograph of Roy Porter, principal of Henry Dana Junior High School (San Pedro), testifying in Municipal Court. Porter, the Los Angeles School District, and the Board of Education were being sued by Hubert Harvey, father of Clifford Harvey (age 15), for damages incurred during a fight that Porter supervised.
Date:
October 17, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Roy Porter, Henry Dana Junior High School principal, testifying in court, (San Pedro?), 1935