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Title: Fire was stopped here
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Point where the 1934 Arroyo Seco fire reached Angeles Crest Highway in the San Gabriel Mountains but failed to jump it. The road was the major line of defense and was the principal means of putting out the fire.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049203
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6110); San Gabriel Mountains.
CARL0000053262
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102687
Subject: Mountains--California, Southern
Roads--California
Fire fighting--California
Angeles Crest Highway (Calif.)

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