Plane crashes in front yard at Van Ness and Slauson, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Plane crashes in front yard at Van Ness and Slauson, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 3, 1935
Date: 1935-08-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Dates on negative sleeve do not correspond with newspaper caption, which dates the event to August 3, 1935.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Trio Injured in Crash,” Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug 1935: 1.
Spectators gather to watch the wreckage of a downed plane at 5715 Van Ness Avenue. Firemen and police administered first aid to the three injured occupants before sending them to hospital. The plane landed on the front lawn of a residential home in a densely populated neighborhood.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Airplane Crash – Van Ness and Slauson
Text from negative sleeve: 1431 – 8-9-35 Airplane Crash Van Ness and Slauson 3 Victims 8/5/35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.990493
Latitude: -118.317304
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7960
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfrbp
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
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