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Title: Explosion at Manitou Avenue and Thomas Street
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Francisco Torres and his wife Dominga sit at debris-laden table where plaster and glass landed during an explosion today. The blast broke three windows in their house and a fourth in a house three doors north of them. Their house is situated at Manitou Avenue and Thomas Street. The window behind them was one of those shattered. Photograph dated June 9, 1968.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 18 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099414
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112195
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30390
Subject: Couples--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Apartments--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles)
Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits

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