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Title: Saddle Peak fire break
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Fire break on the west horn of Saddle Peak in the Santa Monica Mountains on January 31, 1937, seen from the end of Saddle Peak Road, off Topanga Canyon above Fernwood. Fire breaks are of little value, except for avenues along which fire fighters can move and for backfiring purposes. But they are of no value in stopping a major conflagration.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065486
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 154 4x5
CARL0000070068
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2900
Subject: Forest fires--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Fuelbreaks--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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