Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938
Item Overview
- Title
- Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938
- Photographer
- Herod, Jack, b. ca. 1916
- Date Created
- August 12, 1938
- Date
- 1938-08-12
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
-
About 3 men, and possibly 1 woman, bent around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, legs visible, on wet and dirty sidewalk, with 2 men nearby, another man in foreground holding fire hose, at base of ladder leaning on 2-story building marked 1243, Western Candy Box Co., with smoke coming from upstairs windows and roof
This photograph appears with the article , "Fireman at End of Fatal Factory Blaze Plunge." Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 1938. Print.
Photograph of print
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
-
Hancock, Bert F., 1899-1938
Western Candy Box Company (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Longitude
- 33.9821
- Latitude
- -118.252196
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Disaster
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
uclamss_1429_0321
0321 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9k6d
- Manifest url
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.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .