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Title: Boiling tar explodes at a Vernon plant
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated February 5, 1971 reads, "Boiling Tar Exploded And Wrecked This Roofing Materials Plant In Vernon - Fire raged through Johns Manville Co., 3275 E. Slauson Ave., injuring 11 employees, four critically."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 35 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095543
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005107091
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30612
Subject: Roofing industry--California--Vernon
Fire fighters--California--Vernon
Explosions--California--Vernon
Tar--California--Vernon
Industrial facilities--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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