Image / Fire at the Venice Amusement Pier, Dec. 21, 1920

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Title: Fire at the Venice Amusement Pier, Dec. 21, 1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-12
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of people viewing the ruins of the collapsed Dance Pavilion from the fire on the Abbot Kinney Pier in Venice, California, on December 20, 1920. Writing on the front of the photograph reads "Life lost by falling wall" (a firefighter died in the fire). The building at right says "Ocean Inn."
"Fire at the Venice Amusement Pier: Dec 21- 1920" and "Life lost here by falling wall"--text, on item. Title and date transcribed by cataloger from item. The fire was started on December 20, 1920, by a gas heater explosion in the Dance Pavilion. Account of the effects of the fire was transcribed from related item.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.7 x 13.8 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20144
Subject: Piers
Ruins
Abbot Kinney Pier (Venice, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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