Subject: Rescues--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Hero Saves Pedestrian," Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec 1935: A1.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Three men crouch down standing knee-deep in murky water, two of them use a long tool to pry at the walls of the tunnel.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Members of Boy Scout Troop 47 and rescuers, carrying David Swaim on a stretcher after he suffered a minor heart attack on a hike in which the troop was marooned overnight in Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. All, including Swaim, survived the ordeal.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of Boy Scout Troop 47, who were marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A firefighter and another man crouch before two unidentified men putting on jackets inside of the tunnel.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Mrs. Becker holds a cigarette in her hand and leans against Mrs. Harmer, wrapped in a blanket. Two men in the background lean against the cave wall, their faces cut off.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Lowell and Cheatham sit side by side at a table with a checkered cloth smoking cigarettes and smiling.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Members of Boy Scout Troop 47, who were marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Twenty-one Boy Scouts and three leaders from Troop 47 in Los Angeles drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Military personnel practice a water rescue as part of the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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