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Title: Baldwin Hills peat bed
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Bentley, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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 remarkable photo on October 21, 1927, shows live peat in the Baldwin Hills bed and beside it peat burned to ashes by the fire of controversy, which in places burns 40 feet below the surface. Prof. Edgar K. Soper, head of the Department of Geology at U.C.L.A., says flooding probably will not extinguish the fire and recommends building "underground fire breaks" of sand 40 feet deep to prevent spreading of fire.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045547
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 370.
CARL0000049573
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15923
Subject: Fires--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Peat bogs--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Oil fields--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Actions and defenses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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