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Oil soaked ducks get a bath

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Order Number	00082109
Title	Oil soaked ducks get a bath
Photographer	Mullen, Mike.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HH_b008_f4_i4-1
Date	1988
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Description	Photograph caption dated September 14, 1988 reads, "An emergency bathhouse to save the ducks: Far from his home on the stony banks of the Los Angeles River in the San Fernando Valley, an oily duck gets a bath at the North Central Animal Care and Control Center. One of 20 mallard patients there, the duck was a survivor of Sunday's 60,000 gallon Encino oil spill, some of which reached the river through storm drains. 'Even after they're clean, we have to keep them, because washing them removes the (natural) oil from their feathers, and they can't float,' said Dyer Houston of the Animal Regulation Department."
Subject	Oil spills--California--San Fernando Valley. Ducks--California--San Fernando Valley. San Fernando Valley (Calif.). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection