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Description: "Tragedy by the Sea", photograph of John & Lillian McDonald minutes after their 19-month-old son, Michael, was swept out to sea and presumably drowned in Hermosa Beach, California. This photograph won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Title: Tragedy by the Sea
Credit: Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1954, via Newspapers.com. Republished by Radio Patriot, "Drama at the Beach", April 23, 2011. Cropped from source image to reflect the portions that were published in newspapers in 1954.
Author: John L. Gaunt
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

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