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Title
Explosion at 69th Street
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
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.
Photograph caption dated April 23, 1953 reads, "House Wrecked By Gas Explosion - Harry McCool, 83, Critically Burned in Blast as He Lit Stove at 350 1/2 East Sixty-ninth Street."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00099408
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112169
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30383
Subject
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Gas-pipes--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--South Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--South Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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