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Title: Explosion at Berg Metals Corp
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
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated March 14, 1952 reads, "A thundering blast caused this scene of wreckage in shed of the Berg Metals Corp. at Adams and Long Beach boulevards. A 300-ton baling press blew up. Some workmen expressed theory that blast was caused by a souvenir war shell buried in the metal being processed. There was no fire and no one was injured."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099401
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112161
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30376
Subject: Debris--California--Vernon
Industrial facilities--California--Vernon
Explosions--California--Vernon
Factories--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs

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