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Title: Flame-scarred home
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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: This photo shows the flame-scarred home of Mrs. Frank Wecht and her daughter, Mrs. Gretchen Mitchell, on Loma Alta Drive. Both women were in the house when the flames crept up in the early morning hours, but they escaped unharmed. Police braved the searing flames to arouse sleepers in the fire area. Photo dated: October 23, 1935.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050259
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5959.
CARL0000054383
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18239
Subject: Fires
Dwellings
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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