A large group of people watch the effort to rescue Melvin Hoffman, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: A large group of people watch the effort to rescue Melvin Hoffman, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: May 5, 1936
Date: 1936-05-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: When Melvin climbed into the culvert to retrieve a lost tool his body dammed enough water to drown him. Firemen unsuccessfully attempted to revive him after his body was retrieved. A doctor ruled that he might have died of heart failure.
Masses of men, women and children watch as the culvert is raised and efforts are made to extract Melvin Hoffman.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Drowns in Culvert," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr 1936: 3.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 5130 Melvin Hoffman Drowning Arroyo Seco Culvert May 5, 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Emergency medical services--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Culverts--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Rescue work--American--California--Los Angeles
Drowning victims--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14228
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7s5j
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