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Former Marine Nelson D. Boyer showing police the place where he buried his wife's body after murdering her, South Gate, October 26, 1937

Description:
22-year-old ex-marine Nelson D. Boyer (center, hatless) with policemen at the site where he buried the body of his 42-year-old wife, Dorothy Doane Boyer. Boyer confessed to hitting his wife over the head with a dumbell on August 1, almost two months ago. Boyer said he was tired of his wife's nagging and that she would not allow him to divorce her. Boyer confessed to having premeditated the murder.
Date:
October 26, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Former Marine Nelson D. Boyer showing police the place where he buried his wife's body after murdering her, South Gate, October 26, 1937

Former Marine Nelson D. Boyer with two policemen after confessing to his wife's murder and identifying the place where he buried her body, South Gate, October 26, 1937

Description:
22-year-old ex-Marine Nelson D. Boyer (center) with two policemen on the night they exhumed his 42-year-old wife's body from a shallow grave. Boyer confessed to murdering his wife Dorothy Doane Boyer by hitting her over the head with a dumbell on August 1, almost two months ago. Boyer said he was tired of his wife's nagging and that she would not allow him to divorce her. Boyer confessed to having premeditated the murder.
Date:
October 26, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Former Marine Nelson D. Boyer with two policemen after confessing to his wife's murder and identifying the place where he buried her body, South Gate, October 26, 1937

Nurse giving shot to a food aid provider (?) after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Nurse giving shot to a food aid provider (?) after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Commercial building on State Street after the Long Beach earthquake, South Gate, 1933

Description:
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Commercial building on State Street after the Long Beach earthquake, South Gate, 1933