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Title
Redshank in path of fire, Santa Monica Mountains
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
Waiting for the flames to arrive, a stand of redshank, a species of greasewood, which grows only in a few isolated spots in the chaparral of Los Angeles County, is seen during the fire of October 1936, from the north side of Saddle Peak in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00030391
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 116
CARL0000032880
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95739
Subject
Forest fires--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Chaparral--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Sarcobatus--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)

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