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Title: Chemical explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mercurio, Conrad
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
An explosion detonated in a truck parking lot and corrugated metal storage building at 662 S. Mateo St. The explosion was caused by a load of corrosive chemicals in a warehouse of a trucking firm.
Photograph caption reads: "Damage to Star Trucking Co., 662 S. Mateo St., and nearby buildings was estimated at more than $2.5 million by authorities. Remains of warehouse contents lie in charred remains". Photograph dated: Aug. 18, 1974.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00079295
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b007_f4_i3
CARL0000080059
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24789
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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