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Title: Building collapse at Wilshire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 198-
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.
Upper right, a workman inspects the corrugated flooring and twisted steel beams that crashed through 5 floors by falling girders. The construction accident occurred at a building located at 1001 W. Wilshire.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;33 x 23 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094855
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f4_i20
CARL0005063288
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33432
Subject: Building construction--California--Los Angeles
Building sites--California--Los Angeles
Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Building, Iron and steel--Joints
Structural frames
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Structural steel workers--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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