Wounded Seaman, 1955

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1 image. Wounded Seaman, 13 April 1955. William E. Peck -- 42 years(wounded by gunfire from Ecuador Patrol Boat) (Handout).; Supplementary material reads: “From News Bureau, Pan American Airways. Raw negs. -- Please develop. William E. Peck, 42, Seattle Seaman wounded by gunfire from Ecuador patrol boat, pictured on stretcher last night (April 12) after he was flown here on Pan American Airways Clipper from Panama. Peck was rushed by ambulance to Seaside Hospital at Long Beach from International airport for further treatment. ‘International waters’ incident occurred last March 27 when fishing ‘freezer’ the Arctic Mate, on which he served as chief engineer was fired upon by Ecuadorian patrol craft. Peck said his ship was 35 miles off coast in vicinity of Ecuador-Peru border when he was hit. He suffered gunshot wounds in both legs. Father of four children, Peck said: ‘Tell my family I’ll make it home as soon as God will let me.’ The seaman was treated at hospital in Ecuador and later transferred to U.S. Government hospital in the Canal Zone. He said State Department is making inquiries in the affair”.

Asset Metadata

Title Wounded Seaman, 1955

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1955-04-13

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1955-04-13

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m21977

Identifier EXM-N-11407-005~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94924 (legacy record id), examiner-m21977 (legacy record id), 11407-005 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94924

Unique identifier UC11718478

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-11407-005~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.5 in × 32.2 in at 300dpi
64.7 cm × 81.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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