Nick Phillips operates a power shovel as part of the rescue operation to save Kathy Fiscus, 1949.

Item Overview

Title: Nick Phillips operates a power shovel as part of the rescue operation to save Kathy Fiscus, 1949.
Date Created: April 10, 1949
Date: 1949-04-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description: KathyFiscus fell into and was trapped in a 110 ft. San Marino well and subsequently died before rescue workers could reach her.
Caption: IN RESCUE JOB - Nick Phillips shown working power shovel in early hours shortly after daylight. he had been working 15 hours up to the time this picture was made.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12 cm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: San Marino (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Children--Death
Disaster
People
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b63_57117-5
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0013zsr0
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