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Title: How final atom bomb test looked in L.A.--300 miles away
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
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: Photo shows what the final atom bomb test looked like from Los Angeles, 300 miles away from Yucca Flat proving grounds in Nevada. A momentary 'aurora borealis' swept away the darkness and silhouetted downtown Los Angeles. Photograph dated June 5, 1952.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036827
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980
CARL0000039632
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11774
Subject: Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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