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Title
Gas main break near Evening Herald and Express perils hundreds
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
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mrs. Josephine Tallman, 23, and her children, James 2 1/2, and Stanley 1, were evacuated from the Georgia Hotel after gas escaped from a ruptured high-pressure main. They stood with a crowd which had gathered at Georgia street, between 12th Place and Pico Boulevard, to watch as firemen tried to control the broken main. Photograph dated January 8, 1947.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00093237
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005009167
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28649
Subject
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (Firm)
Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Gas-pipes--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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