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Title: Atom-like explosion wrecks wide area
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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: Arrow points to the smoking ruins of the one-story brick building of the O'Connor Electro-Plating Copr. at 922 East Pico Boulevard, following a violent explosion which blew the structure to bits. At least 30 persons were killed and 300 others were injured. Photo dated: February 20, 1947.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046687
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 645.
CARL0000050778
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16630
Subject: O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Industrial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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