Two year old boy swallows knob screw.

1938-04-25

Fang family San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive Negative Files

BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG box 682, sleeve 096179_05

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2 photographs

film negatives

The Bancroft Library

Joel Berger, a child, swallowed a drawer knob. Includes mother Tessie Berger. Joel Berger, age 2, with his mother, Tessie Berger, at the Alameda County Hospital where the child was treated for a scratched throat. He swallowed a drawer knob, his mother shook him by the heels, then set him right side up after dislodging the knob, reached in and pulled the thing out. The kid got a free ride to hospital anyhow for throat painting.

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