Workers attempt to rescue John M. Burns, Robert Rosenthal, and Bernard Glennin after a cave-in, Los Angeles, 1937

Item Overview

Title

Workers attempt to rescue John M. Burns, Robert Rosenthal, and Bernard Glennin after a cave-in, Los Angeles, 1937

Date Created

April 1937

Date

1937-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Men gather along the sides of the ditch, some of them with shovels.
Three laborers employed by the Bureau of Power and Light were seriously injured when the walls of a sixteen-foot ditch collapsed. It is speculated that the timberwork used to support the dirt was not strong enough. The victims were John M. Burns, who suffered a crushed chest and laceration about the head and face, Robert Rosenthal, who suffered contusions of the head, lacerations of the arms, and a possible spinal injury, and Bernard Glennin, who sustained internal injuries and a sprained shoulder.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 8475 - EXCAVATION CAVE-IN ON HIGHLAND, INJURING THREE 4/23/37 [stamped:] Apr 23 1937

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Burns, John M., 1892 or 93
Glennin, Bernard Thomas, 1896-1969
Rosenthal, Robert, b. 1918 or 19

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Shovels
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Excavation--California--Los Angeles