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Title: Garment Capitol Building blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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: Here is the switch of the burglar alarm system at the Garment Capitol building, sparks from which may have ignited the gas, according to theory. Arrow shows the handle set at "on." Investigators say they were informed that the alarm was shut off by pulling a plug instead of throwing the switch. A spark jumped and the explosion resulted, they believe. Photo dated: Oct. 28, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074583
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3395.
CARL0000077529
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27817
Subject: Burglar alarms--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Clothing trade--California--Los Angeles
Factories--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Garment Capitol Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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