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Title: "Air sweep" device
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Admiral R. B. Berry, chief of Los Angeles Civil Defense Committee and Phil Ortha examine vacuum "air sweep" device atop City Hall, which will be used for testing whether radioactivity reaches Los Angeles from the impending A-Bomb tests in Nevada. The device draws in possibly contaminated air through a filter trap. Dated October 16, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063989
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1698
CARL0000068621
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27154
Subject: Berry, R. B
Ortha, Phil
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Radioactivity--Measurement
Admirals--United States
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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