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Title: Loudest warning device
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: 1953
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 31, 1953 reads, "A $6,000 air raid siren, said to be loudest warning device ever, is moved into place atop Burbank's new public service steam plant building by one of Southland's largest rigs, equipped with 125-foot boom and 30-foot jig. A test will be sounded at noon Friday. Hold on to your hat."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00135320
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d041_f38_i2
CARL0005610267
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/65391
Subject: Air raid warning systems--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Cranes, derricks, etc.--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Steam power plants--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Industrial facilities--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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