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Title: Explosion at San Vicente Boulevard
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
The blast occurred at the Bantam Boys' and Girls' Club, 11990 San Vicente Boulevard.
Photograph caption dated November 16, 1948 reads, "The explosion at the club was so strong it hurled part of boiler a block away and through roof of home under construction at 11916 Montana Street. Gordon Robinson, owner, looks at boiler section (arrow)."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099371
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005109816
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30276
Subject: Men--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Brentwood (Los Angeles)
House construction--California--Brentwood (Los Angeles)
Brentwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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