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Title
Homes in fire's path saved
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
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
Photograph caption dated October 24, 1956 reads, "Flames pass dangerously close to one of expensive hillside homes in Beverly Glen Canyon as blackened brush smolders in foreground at edge of road connecting Valley with West Los Angeles. More than 20 homes were threatened by wind-whipped flames which swept through this section of Sherman Oaks-Highlands today. Residents stood on roof-tops fighting fire with garden hoses as city fire crews sought to quell brush-inferno."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00114910
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f19_i26
CARL0005305458
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48464
Subject
Fires--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles
Smoke--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--California--Los Angeles--Poles and towers
Brush--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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