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Title
Torched buildings, Los Angeles Riots
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Leonard, Gary
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
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
900 block of S. Vermont Avenue in Koreatown, just north of San Marino Street, where police have blocked off the street so firemen can put out fires in several buildings torched by rioters. Photograph dated April 30, 1992.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045175
Gary Leonard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b38_f2_i36
CARL0000049354
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/118839
Subject
Los Angeles Riots, 1992
Fires--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Riots--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Police vehicles--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Police--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Signs and signboards--California--Koreatown (Los Angeles)
Street lighting--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Vermont Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Koreatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gary Leonard Collection photographs

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